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JAMMU: Exuding confidence that Centre will end 75-year-long political injustice with the Jammu region, Team Jammu on Thursday hoped that Delimitation Commission constituted by the Union Government to redraw Assembly and Lok Sabha Constituencies will remove the prevailing disparity between two regions of the Union Territory (UT).
“People of Jammu region have high hopes on Delimitation Commission and we are hopeful that political injustice with this region will be removed”, Chairman of Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal said while interacting with media persons.
Accompanied by young DDC, Member, Panchari-Moungri in Udhampur district, Jasvir Singh, Team Jammu chief said, “As per criteria set by the panel, Jammu deserves more assembly seats as compared to Kashmir Valley due to-topography and demography of this region.”
He regretted that previous delimitation panels, constituted from time to time, were biased against Jammu as successive state governments were not interested to treat Jammu at par with Kashmir Valley.
Zorawar Singh Jamwal further demanded that new assembly constituencies should be carved out in all ‘deserving areas of Jammu region. He especially mentioned that the Panchari-Moungri belt, which always remained neglected, full-fills all criteria and deserves to be an Assembly segment.
Pointing towards the recent assurance of Union Horne Minister, Amit Shah during his visit to J&K, Zorawar said that Home Minister had promised to end discrimination with the Jammu region.
“We are kipping that the incumbent regime will fulfill its promise to treat Jammu with the same yardsticks it is treating other regions”, he said and cautioned that people of the Jammu region will not tolerate further poIitical discrimination after the abrogation of Article 370. “If Delimitation Commission failed to end political discrimination with Jammu region, we will be left with no other option but to launch a mass movement for a separate state for Jammu region”, asserted Zorawar and pointed towards the ongoing agitation lunched by the various political and social groups of Ladakh. He questioned that if so many well welfare measures like reservation of jobs for locals can be extended to the populace of Ladakh UT, then why not similar measures for Jammu region. He asserted that the people of Jammu region are all prepared to launch a decisive battle to end discrimination once for all.
In his address, Jasvir Singh, shared information regarding the work being done by him during the last one year and his- plan for further development of the area in the press conference in Jammu.
Jasvir Singh informed that in the last one year, the works which have been closed for years and are waiting for, completion in Panchari Moungri have been restarted with the help of District Administration and Panchayati Raj Institution and all efforts are being made to complete them soon and dedicate them to the public.
Among them, the hospitals being built by the Public Works Department, in which Badhota, Lander, Mongari, Lali, Bariote, Damanot and Ladda are prominent.
In the education sector, Jasvir Singh added, construction has been expedited and efforts are being made to complete the works at Galiote, Lander, Panchari, Panjar, Damnot and Ladda. The building of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Basnote will soon be completed and dedicated to the public.
He considered drug addiction as the biggest threat to the entire society and especially to the younger generation. He reiterated his resolve to make Panchari Moungri area drug free.
Singh demanded introduction of a new youth policy, a new recruitment policy, to fill up vacancies quickly, to make temporary employees permanent. He said that the Center should now sold assembly elections for bright future of Jammu and Kashmir.