STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Taking strong note of the excesses made with outstation NIT students in Srinagar, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) on Tuesday decided to organise an open interactive session, in which Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh and representatives of local administration shall be invited to Chamber House in presence of media persons to justify the action against the innocent students and clarification on demands put in place by CCI regarding action against police officers and officials involved in brutal action inside the campus.
The interactive session will also dwell upon the failure of NIT Administration for not acting against the anti-national elements on the very first day when they raised anti-India slogans or pushing for permanent stationing of CRPF inside the NIT Campus for safety of the students.
The Chamber cautioned that if Dr. Nirmal Singh will not respond to this open invitation, it will have no option but to call for Jammu Bandh. “This may also force the Chamber to call for an indefinite Jammu Bandh”, the CCI stated.
Addressing a meeting of Bazaar, trade, transport and industrial associations, convened here at Chamber House, President CCI Rakesh Gupta brought it to the notice of all those present, the steps taken towards getting justice for the nationalist students who had faced atrocities of the Police force inside the NIT Campus. It was also deliberated that such action of few handful anti-nationals in the Kashmir Valley can jeopardize the security of thousands of students from the State of Jammu and Kashmir studying in other parts of India and also the businessmen from the State may face wrath all over India which may result in huge losses to the business for which separatists and anti-nationals shall be solely responsible.
“At the same time the people of J&K should not expect any sympathetic attitude in rest of India if we have acted in the manner the nationalist students have been tortured and threatened which was a great concern to CCI which also feared total cancellation of bookings in the upcoming tourist season to the valley”, it was observed.
The meeting felt that action of police inside the NIT Campus was an attack on Tricolour and not on the nationalist students, hence it should be taken very seriously by the Government of J&K and also by the Government of India.
The office bearers of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sham Lal Langer, senior Vice President, Deepak Aggarwal, junior Vice President, Arun Gupta, Secretary General, Rahul Mahajan, Secretary, Ashu Gupta, Treasurer were present in the meeting.
In addition, the heads and the representatives of Shiva Market Railway Station, Kanak Mandi Traders Association, Jammu Distributors Association, Traders Federation Warehouse, Rajinder Bazaar Businessmen Association, Hotel, Restaurant and Bar Association, Jammu General Financer Association, Jain Bazaar Traders Association, Upper Gumat Bazaar Association, Bus Stand Traders Association, Hari Market Traders Association, Moti Bazaar Businessmen Association, Shopkeepers Association, Bus Stand, Jammu Wine Traders Association, Parade Motor Parts Dealers Association, Parade Road Businessmen Association, Jammu Photographers Union, Wholesale Food Grain Dealers Association, Jammu Computer Dealers Association, Hardware Paint and Sanitary Dealers Association, Jammu Opticians Dealers Association Motor Part Dealers Association, Transport Nagar, Jammu Pharmaceutical Dealers Association, Below Gumat Municipal Market Traders Association, Wholesale Sugar Merchant Association, Wholesale Federation of Cigarette, Biri, Match and Tobacco Products, Halwai Association, Dal Merchant Association, Sarafa Association, Association of Jammu Travel Agent, General Merchant Association, Jammu Printers Association, Wholesale Shoe Merchant Association, Whole Sale Cloth Merchant Association, Transporters Association, Raghunath Bazaar Businessmen Association, All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association, Jammu Fruit Association, Apsara Road Gandhi Nagar Traders Association, Secretariat Road/ Kachi Chawni Businessmen Association, Vir Marg Traders Association, Shalamar Businessmen Association, Old Hospital Traders Association, Industrial Association Bari Brahmana, Association of Industries Gangyal and others were present in the meeting.
