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JAMMU: Former MLA and Senior Congress leader Thakur Balwan Singh has asked the Narindra Modi led BJP government at the Centre to restore the statehood status to Jammu and Kashmir without any further delay. Questioning the downgrading of the the historical Dogra state, he stressed the immediate need for the restoration of Statehood to J&K.
Thakur Balwan Singh said that it was preposterous in the first place to reduce J&K’s status to UT. “The way forward now from this frozen political state is to give back to J&K its statehood” he said and added that there cannot be and should not be any ifs and buts.
Reminding the Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah of their promise to revert the statehood to J&K, Balwan Singh said that the promise should be honoured in letter and spirit without further delay. Balwan Singh was addressing a series of meeting of Congress workers of Marh constituency in which various issues of Jammu and Kashmir including the prestige of the state of J&K was discussed threadbare.
Among others who spoke on the occasion were block presidents Saudagar Singh , Ashwani Sharma and Corporator Rachpal Bhardwaj, Ashok Bhagat, senior Congress leader and Jagdish Bhagat, Sarpanch. They also highlighted the hardships being faced by the common people due to the daily rise in prices . “Common people are suffering and it is very difficult for them to survive in these times of unprecedented price rise unleashed by the BJP government at the Centre,” Balwan said.
Others who spoke in the meetings included Vijay Kumar Shastri, Bansi Lal, Darshan Mohra, Darshan Mortan and Janak Raj. The meeting reposed faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and PCC president G A Mir.