STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: A delegation of West Pakistan Refugee Action Committee (WPRAC) led by its President, Labha Ram Gandhi on Wednesday called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) and MoS PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh and thanked the Modi Government for the initiative taken by it to address their genuine demands which had been pending for almost 70 years.
Speaking to media persons later, Labha Ram Gandhi spoke highly of Dr Jitendra Singh who, he said, took great personal pains to follow up their issues and coordinated their regular sittings with the officials in Union Home Ministry and also arranged their meetings with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Assuring Labha Ram Gandhi and his colleagues of the government’s continued support to them, Dr Jitendra said, they are the victims of an anomaly which should have been corrected several decades ago, but somehow it did not figure in the priority list of the successive governments.
The present government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, has been in power only for over two years but has taken upon itself the responsibility to redeem the injustice meted out to them.
Lashing out at those who were opposing the government’s welfare measures for West Pakistan Refugees, Dr Jitendra Singh said, this was a group of disgruntled activists who were uncomfortable to digest how the Modi government had managed to do in two years which they could not do for 70 years, despite being in power both at the Centre and the State, because it did not suit their policy of appeasement towards a certain section of population.
