 Early Times Report
Jammu, June 15: Chairman of AIIMS Coordination Committee and president Bar Association Jammu, Advocate Abhinav Sharma, Members of Coordination of Committee and all those who sat on chain hunger strike on Monday launched a scathing attack on BJP and accused it of betraying the mandate, the people of Jammu Province gave to it in Lok Sabha as well as Assembly elections.
Those who sat on Chain Hunger strike today included Advocates Raghubir Singh, Umesh Sharma, Vir Ranshor, Randip Singh, Pardeep Majotra, Sorab Banotra, Sourabh Devan, Sunil Sharma, Amit Chadha, Ravinder Kumar, Amit Singh Chib, Brij Mohan, Sardar Manjeet Singh Jat, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Federation, Rajan Gupta, Ravinder Gupta, JPDA, Rajkumar, Davinder Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Sanjay Kumar Babbu, Tejinder Bhagat, Jammu Adhikar Manch and Deepak Sharma, Bharat Swabhimaan, J&K (NGO).
Addressing the gathering comprising the senior citizens and former bureaucrats, Chairman CC, Abhinav Sharma charged the BJP with hoodwinking the struggling people of Jammu region by making contradictory statements on the issue of AIIMS. He said it is an irony that the party let down those who gave this party a massive mandate hoping that it would end the age old discrimination with them and hand down an administration that would help them compensate for the losses they suffered under the earlier Kashmiri dominated dispensations.
He asserted that no effort on the part of BJP would succeed in weakening the ongoing movement in support of AIIMS for Jammu and that the BJP is only becoming unpopular by the day by playing Kashmiri games in Jammu.
Abhinav Sharma lambasted the Kashmir centric political groups in Jammu saying they are responsible for the all round degeneration of the region and added that the people of Jammu region are the only segment of the Indian society that has been consistently fighting for the national cause in the state despite the fact that New Delhi nor any of the Jammu based parties ever defended their cause.
The speakers like K B Jandial retd IAS, Dr C L Gupta, President Shri Amar Kashtriya Rajput Sabha, Narayan Singh, President, Hotel and Lodges Association, Inderjeet Khajuria, President Oil Tankers and Pump Owners Association, Anan Sharma, President Dalit Chetna Manch, Sham Lal Bassan, Doordarshan Approved Artists Association, Uttam Singh, working president, JPPF, M S Katoch, Senior Journalist Chaturvedi and Advocate Zaffar Ahmad from Poonch district, to mention only a few also highlighted the acts of omission and commission on the part of the authorities and stated that the moment the AIIMS coordination committee is destined to be a grand success.
Meanwhile the central government penmsioners welfare association today extended its full support to the movement and those who participated from among the members of the association included Prem Gupta retd (IGP), P P Sharma, retd Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Ramesh Kaul retired DIG. (JNF) |
