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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 4: R.S. Pathania, prime minister and the union minister for defence has appealed for calling back army in far-flung reaches of Basantgarh area. He demanded that the union government should not be moved by the false rhetoric and vote-bank politics of wolf-crying politicians, and rather, be guided by the exigencies and delicacies of the situation on ground. He criticized the power-that-be for sudden and uncalled for withdrawal of Army from Lodhra, Punara, Karothu, Sang, Lalon Gala and other higher reaches of Basantgarh and further termed it as a deep-rooted conspiracy aimed at jeopardizing the security and well-being of the people living in these far-flung reaches. Due to the onset of militancy in nineties, people living in these far-flung reaches. Due to the onset of militancy in nineties, people in living in these far-off reaches had migrated but it was only after permanent stationing of Army there that the people came back to their homes and hearths. It seems that the agencies which have given the feedback for the return of Army look to be against the welfare and well being of the civil society living in Basantgarh. He rather appealed the defence minister to completely overhaul the agency-security apparatus in J&K and give a new look to it in view of the fresh threat emerging out from fresh infiltration.
Pathania has remained the defence minister of the brutal massacre in (Lalon Gala) Basantgarh some three-odd years ago- the killing had been planned close on heels of withdrawal of army from Lalon Gala. He appealed the union minister to re-affirm and re-assure the faith of the rural people living to far-flung areas of Udhampur district, by ensuring security of their lives and limbs falling which they shall be forced to migrate from their homes and hearths and live like permanent migrants in safer places.
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