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UDHAMPUR: Reiterating the demand of Separate Assembly Constituency for Panchari-Landhar-Bhamaag area during his one-day tour at Galiote, Lander, Katti, Lattiyar, Kultiyar, Panchari and Meer Panchayats Ex-MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia staged protest on the Panchayat level.
While speaking on the occasion , Mankotia said that this area can’t develop until it become separate assembly constituency because this far-flung hill area fall under three assembly constituencies such as Reasi, Chenani & Udhampur. He said that time has come to fight unitedly for separate assembly. Mankotia appealed to the members of the De-limitation commission and said that they should go to the entire area and take the opinion of the people and then decide. Mankotia said that if Gurez area of Kashmir, a Legislative Assembly area can be made on 14 thousand voters, then why this hilly area whose voter is more than 40 thousand cannot be given a separate Legislative Assembly status ? He questioned.
Mankotia also said that the road work is going on very slow in this area from Kainthgali to Galiyot, the administration and the government should take cognizance of it as soon as possible and this work can be completed at the earliest, apart from this He said that the pending MGNREGA liability 2016-17-18 of Labourers is still pending, the government should release the Liability of these people soon, as well as Mankotia said that under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, poor people get money to build houses, that too the poor people of the area are not getting it. The crops of poor people have been ruined due to heavy rains & storms in this area in the last days, Mankotia urged to government that people should get compensation for their crop loss at the earliest. Local leader Surjit Singh, Sarpanch Shamsher Singh, former Sarpanch Rajinder Sharma, Sr Leader Kulchattar Singh, Harjeet Singh besides many Panchs Sarpanchs, and local people were also present on the occasion.