Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party provincial president Rajesh Pargotra today took an extensive tour of border areas Ramgarh, Arnia in which they demands compensation for shell hit families. The villages included Barota Camp, Keso, Kamore, Rangoor Camp, Nanga, Nandpur Camp in Ramgarh Sector and Pindi-Kathad, Kaku de Kothey, Masha de Kothey ,Trewa in Arnia sector.
While interacting with the NPP leader in Arnia, local residents strongly expressed their resentment against the State government's apathy for not providing any ex-gratia relief to the families and employment to next of kin of the persons killed during Pakistani Army shelling on the intervening night of October 6, 2014 as promised by the BJP MP from Jammu-Poonch Jugal Kishore Sharma and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.
The people also apprised Padgotra that the aforesaid leaders had announced the relief soon after the cremation of six dead bodies at Masher de Kothey in presence of the aggrieved villagers. Padgotra demanded ex-gratia of Rs.20 lacs each of the family of the person killed in Pak firing and employment for the next of the kin of the deceased under the provisions of SRO 43. |
