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| PRM boycotts all party meet, demands recall of Governor | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 9
Peoples Revolutionary Movement, (PRM) today boycotted the 18 -party meet headed by Home Minister Shiv Raj Patil here today in protest against the presence of so called main stream Kashmiri pro-separatist leaders including Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), Farooq Abdullah (NC), Saiffudin Soz and Ghulam Nabi Azad and also in violation of people's civil liberties and callous attitude of the UPA government towards the ongoing agitation in Jammu over restoration of land to SASB.
A delegation of PRM headed by Rajinder Jamwal, president and Sonu Sharma objected the presence of these leaders and said that Government of India is committing one blunder after another by inviting those who are responsible for igniting this passionate mass movement.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajinder Jamwal said that Government of India has appointed the accused as judges and want to resolve the crisis in Jammu. He asked Home Minister to correct the perception regarding Jammu saying, “enough is enough and Jammu people would take no more poison of anti-nationals and pro-Pak elements in the name of nationalism’.
Jamwal said that people of Jammu have faced more than 100 massacres in which innocent civilians numbering 5 to 35 have been killed in a day by Pakistan sponsored terrorists, yet we have not protested, we have a voter population of more than 32 lakh as compared to 28 lakh of Kashmir valley and area almost 30, 000 sq kilometers, as compared to just 15,000 sq kilometers of Kashmir valley, we have just 37 Assembly and two parliamentary seats while Kashmir has 46 Assembly and 3 Parliamentary seats, but we have not complained, Jammu has an unemployment percentage of 69 as compared to 27 of Kashmir, Kashmir has more than 3 lakh employees while Jammu has just about one lakh, still we have not complained, J&K secretariat has a presence of more than 90 per cent employees from Kashmir still we kept mum, the revenue contribution of Jammu is more than 70 per cent and its share in development is less than 30 per cent, Kashmir is visited by about 3 lakh tourists while more than 90 lakh tourists visit Jammu region, still 80 per cent of Tourism budget is spent in Kashmir yet the people of Jammu have not complained, Jammu has the Chenab Basin yet the Chenab Valley Power Project Corporation office is being set up at Srinagar, the centre offered to establish a 1000 MW Thermal Power project at Jammu but state government refused, the Kashmiri leaders projected the building of Mughal road in Poonch as a victory of Muslim Communal forces, yet we did not complain all in the name of protecting “NATIONAL INTEREST”.
But the out and out communal and against the set principles of co-existence, communal harmony and secularism, fundamental rights of a community, the state government has declined to provide 800 kanals of land for Shri Amarnath Shrine Board for ‘temporary’ period erecting ‘temporary’ facilities for visiting pilgrims, the PRM remarked. The more unfortunate is the expressions of the so called main stream politicians from National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party against allotment of land, which are worse than separatists and anti-national elements and has added fuel to fire in the Jammu region, the PRM observed.
Jamwal said that the PRM demands recall of Governor NN Vohra from Jammu and Kashmir and restoration of land to SASB.
While coming out after boycotting the meet, Rajinder Jamwal had a tiff with former health minister and senior Congress leader Mangat Ram Sharma, who was briefing the media on Home Minister’s meet.
Jamwal accused him of misleading the media by vouching one thing in the meeting and telling another to media. He said that all Congressmen except MP Lal Singh praised Governor NN Vohra and supported his continuance while they did not talk of anything concrete on land issue and ongoing agitation, repression on people, violation of civil liberties and human rights, Jamwal alleged. |
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