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Jammu, 18 October (Hindustan Reporter). Senior leaders of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party BHIM, led by its president Vintik Singh, paid tribute to the student martyrs of Jammu who were martyred by police bullets during an agitation. In 1966, students started a movement. Three students, Brij Mohan, Subhash Chandra and Gulshan Handa, were killed in the GGM College campus on October 16, while a student leader, Gurcharan Singh, was killed in Kanak Mandi, Jammu on October 18, 1966, when a procession of students passed through the streets of Jammu. Was passing through.
While paying tribute to the student martyrs, Vintik Singh recalled that the main organizer of the student movement, Professor Bhim Singh, had escaped the police bullets. On 18 October 1966, thousands of students met Prof. Students under the leadership of Bhim Singh were marching on the streets of Jammu demanding the Congress leadership to bring all the murderers to justice, when bullets were fired resulting in the martyrdom of Gurcharan Singh. Hundreds of students and youth were injured. Some of them lost their arms and legs.
Singh recalled his sacrifice and said that due to this, not only a university but many other institutions and many professional colleges have opened in Jammu state. Whatever Jammu has got even under the present government, it has been achieved only through agitation. He said that the present generation should not forget the supreme sacrifices of the student martyrs who sacrificed their lives fighting against the injustice done to Jammu province by the then ruling parties. He appealed to all the student organizations of Jammu and Kashmir from school to university level to get organized, so that we can effectively fight against the forces discriminating against Dogras.