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| Andrabi visits agitating jawans, threatens to join striking employees | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 17- Agitating over the government’s poor response towards their demand of regularization, all the jawans of Homeguards along with their families began ‘fast unto death’ from today.
The jawans of Home-guards, who were on protest dharna outside Divisional Commissioner Jammu office for last more than three years, have strongly condemned the State Government for ignoring them in the State Budget, which forced them to go on fast unto death.
Kamla Sharma, president of the association said that home-guards were excepting their regularization by the State Government but regretted that government has not taken any step to resolve it.
“We had given ultimatum to the State Government to address our demand before August 15, but government failed to concede the same forcing the jawans and their families to go on fast unto death from today, Sharma said.
In the meantime in a very significant move, SDP President Dr Darakhshan Andrabi today came out in support of the Home-guard employees who are on a hunger strike at Jammu outside divisional commissioner’s office since a week now. She visited the striking employees today.
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