STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The residents of Jammu West Constituency including women, men and children under the leadership of Sunil Dimple President Jammu West Assembly Movement (JWAM) held a protest rally on Janipur High Court Road against the Union CAPD Ministry for supplying wheat instead of flour to the people in Jammu and Kashmir State.
Addressing the protesters, Sunil Dimple alleged that the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) of the BJP-PDP Government has created enormous problems for the people of the Jammu and Kashmir. He demanded the Governor N.N Vohra to rollback National Food Security Bill as it has put the people of the State in great trouble because wheat is being given to the consumers instead of flour.
He alleged that government has also stopped the sugar supply on ration depots and no kerosene is being supplied to the consumers. He said the people of the Jammu region are without ration for the last three months.
Dimple appealed to the Governor to keep the NFSA in abeyance, till the formation of the new government as there are lot of irregularities and short comings in the National Food Security Bill of J and K. He demanded the Governor to sort out shortcomings in the NFSB before its implementation in the State.
Dimple demanded from the Governor that 10 kg Atta per member should be given, as 5 kg per member is not sufficient. He also demanded inclusion of edible oil, sugar, salt, pulses, vegetables, LPG and kerosene oil in the National Food Security Bill from the State Government side.
Coming down heavily on the Union Food Ministry and the Prime Minister Narinder Modi, Dimple said that Modi Government has snatched food from the mouths of the people of the country.
The prominent among others who joined the protest were Sunita Devi, Suman Kumari, Poonam Rani, Darshna Devi, Dimple Kumari, Seema Devi, Sham Saroop, Harbans Tondan, Vinod Suri, Som Nath Sharma, S Partap Singh, S Randhier Singh Bali, Vijay Khjuria, Ashok Khana, Kulwant Sharma, Raman Gupta, Dev Raj, Bansi Lal, Ram Kumar Dass, Vipan Mukesh, Rakesh, Mukesh Kumar, Muna Dogra and Golu Singh.
