Jammu, Oct 10: District Gurdwara Committee Jammu has expressed its serious concern over the recent total neglect of our mother tongue Punjabi in J&K and has decided to launch a united campaign for the implementation and promotion of Punjabi language at all levels in Sikh community and other Punjabi loving people of J&K. S. Jagjit Singh president DGPC and S. Fateh Singh General Secretary DGPC while addressing a joint press conference along with office bearers and members of DGPC Jammu including Jathedar Mohinder Singh, S. Avtar Singh Khalsa, S Manmohan Singh Khalsa, S. Ramneek Singh, S. Kuldeep Singh, & S. Mohinder Singh Akhnoor, today strongly condemned the discriminative attitude of Central Government, that despite large scale peaceful protest by sikh community and other Punjabi loving people not only from every corner of J&K but also from SGPC Amritsar, Shiromani Akali Dal, & many other prominent Sikh leaders and intellectuals from Punjab, Delhi & elsewhere. Office bearers and members of DGPC Jammu said that blatant exclusion of Punjabi language from recent J&K official languages act has badly hurt the sentiments of entire Sikh community and Punjabi loving people in J&K and consequently a strong resentment is brewing in the mind of entire community and particularly our young generation.
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