STATE TIMES NEWS
KATRA: “It was all anti-climax at the end of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine University conclave as Prime Minister Modi failed to mention a word about the PHE daily wagers numbering about 30,000, failed to address the sufferings and miserable plight of the hills of Mata Vaishno Devi now called as ‘Baridars’ who have been literally turned as beggars in their own land. These Baridars and their ancestors have been looking after the Shrine for centuries without any benefit or gain.
Several hundred Katra activists including their Panchs and Sarpanchs of Katra areas surrounding the University have been kept away under the threats of handcuffs by the police who have been protesting peacefully for their causes.
This was the reaction of Prof. Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party from New Delhi camp office about PM Modi’s visit to Katra and his conquest of the peasantry and the Vaishno Devi owners who have been suffering for decades and demanding justice and equity.
Singh wanted to know from Prime Minister Modi why he failed to mention the plight of the people who have been suffering at the hands of his half-a-partner with PDP in the State. Prime Minister could not mention a word about the suffering daily wagers in PHE, he could not mention a word about the miserable situation the masters of Vaishno Devi Shrine have been facing since their humiliating ouster. Prime Minister also could not address the open meeting and had to direct the security forces to prepare a security covered up hall in the Katra University ground costing more than, as estimated, Rs.20 crores.
Singh expressed surprise that Prime Minister of India could not say a word to appeal the students of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University in Rajouri which was closed a few days back due to students’ unrest. The Prime Minister failed to say a word giving call to the students and youth in the Valley who have been staging demonstration against the State. Singh wondered whether Prime Minister Modi had any faint idea about the situation that has developed in different areas of J and K?