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Declare Oct 27 as state holiday: Harsh 10/23/2016 9:33:41 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 23: Flaying the successive State governments for undermining and downplaying the significance of Accession Day, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP has sought declaration of Oct 27 as holiday with its due observance as a State function. He said that Maharaja Hari Singh, the competent authority signed the Instrument of Accession on 26th Oct 1947 which was accepted by Lord Mountbatten on behalf of Indian Government on October 27, 1947 thus completing the process of Accession and making J&K State an integral part of India. He was addressing media persons in Jammu today. Addressing a press conference, Singh pointed out that Accession of the State with Indian Union on 27th October gave legal and constitutional right to the State subjects of J&K to claim themselves as proud Indians. He however regretted that despite 27th Oct being most significant day in the history of the State, it was not being celebrated officially by the Government. Seeking the observance of October 27 as a State festival, he further sought declaration of Oct 27 as a State holiday. He further made fervent appeal to the students of colleges and universities to suspend academic activity on the said day and to organize festivities in their respective institutions so as to give a befitting reply to the separatists and anti-nationals who were questioning the constitutional status of J&K as an integral part of India. Harsh Dev Singh divulged that Panthers Party had been celebrating 'Accession Day' in Jammu since the time of the inception but this time it had taken out series of District Wise rallies to celebrate Accession Week which started on 17th October from District Poonch. Taking a dig at the BJP, he said that the Saffron Party had succumbed to the dictates of the Kashmiri leaders and was playing a second fiddle role in the unholy alliance only to retain its role as a Junior partner in PDP led Govt. Gagan Pratap Singh general secretary & spokesman young Panthers and Des Raj senior Panthers leader also accompanied Singh during the press conference.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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