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| NPP legislators protest outside Parliament | | 'Concede employees' demands' | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 13: National Panthers Party (NPP) today staged a dharna in front of Parliament to support the demands of striking State government employees.
Hundreds of NPP activists assembled in front of the Parliament and shouted slogans against the National Conference led coalition government in the State.
Addressing the party activists, Bhim Singh, chairman of the NPP called upon the State government to withdraw the ESMA invoked against government employees, ensure immediate release of their arrears and restore the rule of law in the interest of the people of state at large. He warned the government to desist from using "repressive" measures against employees.
Later, a delegation of Panthers Legislators led by Harsh Dev Singh, Leader of Legislature Party called on the Union Finance Ministry and submitted a memorandum to the Union Finance Minister seeking early resolution of the prevalent crisis in J&K created due to ongoing strike of the State government employees.
The delegation comprising Balwant Singh Mankotia, MLA and state president, Yashpal Kundal, MLA, and Syed Rafiq Shah, MLC urged the Centre for addressing the issues of agitating government employees on priority and early clearance of all pending arrears of the employees of the J&K State government.
Harsh Dev Singh, while interacting with the Union Finance Ministry authorities alleged that the entire polito-constitutional apparatus of the State government had crumbled with the financial and administrative machinery of the state having totally collapsed.
The Party MLAs further pointed out that the State government had itself held out assurances to the government employees during the previous year for early clearance of their pay arrears but subsequently took a U-turn thereby forcing them to take to agitational course.
"The crises created by the strike had been further compounded due to the repressive measures being resorted to by the state government against the employees and invocation of ESMA against them," they alleged. The NPP MLAs made an appeal to the Finance Minister to intervene so as to ensure that all agreements reached by the J&K government with the agitating government employees including payment of their arrears were fulfilled at the earliest.
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