STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: All Jammu Civil Society Forum’ (AJCSF) called upon the Kashmir civil society exhorting innocent youth of the Valley to wake up to the realities and not to fall prey to the evil designs of inimical forces who want to ruin the Kashmiri poor children to have in hand cheaply available ‘gun fodder’.
“The threats from outside the State be understood in that light and condemned instead of preparing another young generation as ‘gun fodder’ for their wicked designs,” AJCSF convener Th. Gulchain Singh Charak told reporters.
The Jammu region, he said, is suffering as an evil impact that has overcast the skies on Kashmir adding that the business, trade, tourism and the religious pilgrimages have vastly suffered this season with evil time planned attacks by the terror groups waiting in arms. Forum members, present in the press conference, in one voice expressed their solidarity with each other rising above any political, communal or regional aspiration and took a firm resolve not to allow the sparks of trouble to ignite in Jammu. They exhorted all the meaning full people of Jammu province to rise, awake and raise the united voice against the injustice being meted out them.
“Let us sit together and think which type of future we are planning for our coming generation,” Charak said. Mehbooba Mufti the Chief Minister of the State has publically said that there is no capable leadership in Jammu region who can address the aspiration of this region. Is she isolating herself also to ‘K’ only and washing her hands off the Jammu/ Ladakh regions?
The Jammu region has also suffered as the government is at a standstill with offices closed in Kashmir and no alternative arrangements for Jammu to at least clear the backlog by opening the parts of summer secretariat in Jammu.
The forum welcomed the idea of a dialogue as proposed by the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. However, it said, the dialogue has to be with the stake holders civil societies of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
The forum also decided to go to district, Tehsil and Halka levels to re-built confidence, strengthen bondage of love and communal harmony.
The other prominent persons present during the press conference were Abdul Majid- Co-Convener, Annil Suri- General Secretary, G.A Khawaja-Add. General Secretary, Yash Paul Gupta, Maj. Gen Goverdhan Singh Jamwal, Neeraj Anand, OM Parkash Gupta, Amanat Ali Shah, Brig. M.S Jamwal (Retd.)Raghbir Gupta, V. K Grover, Madan Rangila, Janak Khajuria, Mohd. Aslam Qureshi, Ravi Singh Slathia, S. Peter and R.S Manhas.
