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R S PURA: A high-level team of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Saturday held detailed interactions with the victims of discriminatory Article 370 and Article 35-A, including West Pakistan Refugees (WPRs), Valmikis and Gorkhas to obtain firsthand assessment of improvement in their lives post-abrogation of these laws in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
On the second-day of their Sushasan Yatra in Jammu Kashmir,the BJYM team comprising its National Media In-charge S.Amandeep Singh, BJYM State President Arun Prabhat and others visited border village Chakroi in R S Pura under Bharat Darshan Sushasan Yatra and held threadbare discussions with WPRs in the presence of former minister Sham Lal Choudhary. During the interactions, the representatives of WPRs told the visiting group that they had remained worst-sufferers of the Article 370 and Article 35-A for decades and they were kept deprived of their legitimate rights by the Kashmir-based political parties for their vested interests. “The BJP government at the Centre, headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now delivered them justice by granting them all rights which are being enjoyed by the every citizen of this country,” they said. Addressing the participants, former minister Sham Lal Choudhary also highlighted the various initiatives undertaken by the BJP-led government at the Centre to carry out unprecedented and equitable development across Jammu and Kashmir.
The former minister said that every section of society now feels equitable in Jammu and Kashmir because the government has discouraged the policy of appeasement, bias and nepotism.
The visiting team also interacted with the people of Gorkha and Valmiki Samaj, who were also the victims of Article 370 and Article 35-A, at Gandhi Nagar here.
Later, the BJYM team met the Member of Parliament Jugal Kishore Sharma where they discussed the current political scenario of Jammu and Kashmir.