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| Simmering unrest coming into the open | | Protest At Jagati Township | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 20: The ferment in the Jagati Camp is quite visible. The simmering unrest is coming into the open. On Sunday, residents of the Camp from all blocks took out a procession in protest against the relief organization. They were raising slogans against the Relief Commissioner, a section of political leadership at the helm, Zonal Officers of the Relief Department and, last but not the least, against members of the Apex Committee nominated by the government. The residents of the Camp were without electric supply for more than few days and believed that the "government was ruthlessly pursuing the policy of intimidating them to fall in line and stop their public outpourings against corruption and mismanagement of the Relief Organization".
On Tuesday, the residents of the Jagati township came in matadors to the office of the Relief Commissioner and held a peaceful dharna in front of it. The speakers who spoke on the occasion talked about the "difficulties they were facing due to frequent and indefinite power cuts as well as interruption in water supply". "They want to silence us," said one of the protesters from Jagati. "They have converted the Relief Organization into a cesspool of corruption and through their handpicked stooges they are seeking to make us slaves to do their bidding," said another protester.
While the residents of Jagati Camp are seething with anger, the "shamelessness" of the Relief Organization was brazenly on display when it organized two farewell parties for the "disgraced" Relief Commissioner who has been transferred after the public outcry on the mismanagement in the affairs in the Camps and the alleged corruption in the "construction of Jagati two-room Quarters". In the farewell parties, one at Jammu club and another at Hotel Suvoy, the lavishness was more than visible. "Liquor was consumed in crates. Cuisine served would put to shame any feast held by the richest in the town. Who spent money for these parties? And what was the purpose of such a brazen display of misuse of power and authority? These are charges leveled by and questions put by some of the eye witnesses.
Many an eyewitness said that "it was being communicated that the Relief commissioner had been only shifted for a few months to allow the din to subside and the entire flock of beneficiaries who were particularly invited in the parties were conveyed to stay together till that time". In the meantime, the increasing difficulties in the Jagati Camp have confirmed that the "government through the Relief Organization has unleashed a policy of retribution on the residents of Jagati". Talking to them, however, confirms that "they are no longer ready to submit to blackmail and put up with the stooges of Relief Organization roaming about as the leaders of the camp". |
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