Seeking the restoration of J&K Bank select list, and re-instatement of terminated Health employees of Jammu region, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP-Chairman & former Minister today torched the effigy of the BJP led govt at main stop Gandhi Nagar today. He said that BJP had caused the greatest embitterment in the hearts and minds of Jammu people who had given it 25 seats in Assembly besides both the seats of Parliament. He said that the educated youth of the region was the biggest causality of the BJP regime with the unemployed and under employed youth seething with rage against the most despicable apathy shown by the govt towards their concerns.
Ridiculing the BJP for its tall slogans during the 2014 elections of ensuring justice to Jammu region and compensating it for all injustice done to it in the past, Mr. Singh said that Jammu youth suffered the most humiliating and hostile discrimination during the saffron rule itself. Never before had the youth of Jammu been subjected to such biased, prejudicial treatment as in the present regime. Cancellation of the J&K Bank selections was the greatest injustice to the Jammu youth for which the BJP govt owed an explanation to the people.
Likewise, said Singh, the termination of Health Department employees of Jammu region further demonstrated the policy of bias being pursued against Jammu by the present dispensation. With selections of both the regions of the erstwhile J&K State having been conducted under SRO-24, it was repulsively bizarre to rescind the selections of Jammu region while allowing their Kashmir counterparts to continue. He said that identical treatment needed to be given to both regions and all terminated Health employees re-instated at the earliest. He further castigated the govt for termination of 40 employees of Information Department last week during the currency of Corona pandemic resulting in untold hardships for the affected families with dignity and honour.
Seeking a fair deal for the unemployed educated youth, the NPP Chairman re-iterated his resolve to stand toe to toe and shoulder to shoulder with them in their crusade for justice till their rights in a free country were restored to them with dignity and honour.