STATE TIMES NEWS
UDHAMPUR: Urging upon the people to support and strengthen Panthers Party in its fight against differential and discriminatory treatment doled out to Jammu Region, Balwant Singh Mankotia, State President JKNPP said that a Regional Party alone could dispense justice to the people.
He said that a local party alone could address and redress the regional and local issues of the people who had been cheated and betrayed umpteen times by national parties like BJP and Congress. He was addressing public meetings in Sanasar, Lander, Pancheri and Bhamaag areas of Udhampur district during ‘Panchayat Chalo Abhiyan’ launched by the party.
JKNPP had been fighting for the cause of Dogras’ right from streets to Supreme Court, Mankotia said adding that Panthers crusade for Jammu cause shall continue till the due share of Dogra land was restored to it with dignity and honour. Panthers Party was well versed with the plight of the people which had vowed to regain the pride and honour of the Dogras at all costs, he maintained, adding the people of Jammu region were reposing faith in the Panthers Party.
During his four day tour, Mankotia constituted 12 Panchayat level committees. On January 1, he constituted committee in Sanasar followed by Lander, Pancheri and Bhamaag on 2, 3 and 4 January respectively.
In its 2017 resolution, the Panthers Party has decided to constitute 11-member Panchayat committees to strengthen the Party at grass-root level. Mankotia said 13 Panchayats of Bhamaag area of Udhampur district fall under Reasi Assembly constituency due to which the areas is not being given due attention for development. He demanded that either the Panchayats be included in Udhampur constituency or the Lander, Bhamaag and Panceri be declared as separate Assembly constituency.
