JAMMU: Apni Party President, Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari has assured that his Party will resolve all pending Displaced Persons (DPs) issues if they are voted to power in Jammu and Kashmir.
A meeting of DPs was organized by the Provincial President of Apni Party, Youth Wing, Vipul Bali, and Provincial President, Jammu, Women Wing, Pavneet Kour here at Gandhi Nagar, Apni Party Office.
Apni Party Senior Vice President, Ghulam Hassan Mir, General Secretary Vijay Bakaya, Provincial President Jammu, S. Manjit Singh and others were present at the meeting.
During the meeting, the DPs and their leaders highlighted issues being confronted by them for the last several decades in the presence of Apni Party President Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari.
After hearing their longstanding issues, Altaf Bukhari assured that his Party would resolve the issues if voted to power in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The DPs’ grievances should have been resolved by the previous governments. However, the traditional political parties did not give heed to the genuine demands of the DPs for the last several decades,” he said.
Extending his support to their genuine cause, he said that he was concerned about the plight of the DPs and sought their social, economic, educational and political upliftment.
“We stand with the DPs and their demands like the release of a pending sanctioned package of Govt of India, reservation in an educational institution for their children and employment,” he said quoting the demands raised by the Apni Party Provincial President, Jammu, S. Manjit Singh, Provincial President Jammu Youth Wing, and Provincial President, Jammu, Women Wing, Pavneet Kour.
He said that these DPs had abandoned their houses/agricultural land following certain circumstances and settled in the border areas of the Jammu region.
“The DPs are the first line of defence on the borders and they have given their sacrifices,” he said while appreciating the DPs leaders for their struggle for their genuine demands.
Citing the demands of the DPs, the Apni Party President also sought an on-the-spot track recruitment process of the unemployed educated youth in Paramilitary Forces, Indian Army and J&K Police for the DPs and other border residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
He again reminded that the Apni Party has always stood for the cause of the people in Jammu and Kashmir, unlike other traditional political parties which work for their vote bank.
He said that it was the Apni Party that ensured the protection of the jobs and land for the locals of Jammu and Kashmir when others were not willing to fight back following August 5, 2019.
Meanwhile, the Senior Vice President of the Apni Party, Ghulam Hassan Mir said that the issues of DPs were not resolved, but they were used as vote banks by the politicians.
“Different segments of people have separate issues that need resolution as per the aspirations of the concerned people. The traditional political parties were not willing to resolve the issues of DPs because they would not have other things to do. Hence, they delayed the resolution of the issues for seven decades,” Mir said.
He said that there was nothing impossible to resolve the DPs’ issue if anyone wanted to resolve the same.
