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Vijaypur, March 1 (Hindustan Reporter) Apni Party on Friday held a massive protest and rally in Vijaypur city demanding restoration of statehood and holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Hundreds of people, businessmen, ex-PRI and prominent people and party leaders who participated in the protest rally were led by Apni Party provincial president and former minister Manjit Singh.
A peaceful demonstration was carried out from the market area amid slogans of restoration of democratic system while the protesters were carrying banners in support of their demands. He said that anger among the people has increased and the Election Commission of India has not yet taken any decision on holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Apni Party organized the protest to highlight the popular demands of the people deprived of their democratic rights.
Addressing a huge protest rally, the former minister said that the nationalist people of Jammu and Kashmir have been continuously demanding to hold assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been stripped of its status as a historical erstwhile state by making it into two union territories. Along with public representatives from different areas, he said that people have decided to come out on the streets so that the government and the Election Commission of India wake up from the deep sleep due to which the elections are being delayed.
He said that the people of both the regions of Jammu and Kashmir have a common demand for holding elections and restoration of democracy as bureaucracy has almost paralyzed the functioning of government departments of public interest as the gap between the present regime and the people has widened to an unprecedented level. Has increased. He urged the Government of India to restore statehood.
He further mentioned the issues of displaced persons/refugees who have not yet been given land rights on the custodian land even though they have been living there for the last seven decades. Addressing the protesters he said that the pending demands of the DPs/refugees should be accepted by giving them ownership rights on the custodian land. He also demanded release of the pending package amount i.e. Rs 25 lakh for each DP/refugee family in Jammu and Kashmir which was sanctioned by the then Government of India.
He also demanded employment package and special recruitment for border residents along the international border as well as the Line of Control. Youth from the border areas should be given special on-spot recruitment by officers in the Indian Army, paramilitary forces and Jammu and Kashmir Police so that they do not get involved in anti-social activities or drug addiction that has destroyed families on the border. He said that farmers' issues like waiver of KCC loans, canal water to last mile villages on the international border, regular electricity supply should be provided to farmers so that they can run their water pumps to irrigate their fields.
Prominent figures in the protest also addressed hundreds of people who had gathered to express their anger against the Election Commission of India for delaying the elections and not announcing assembly elections.
