Jammu: Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP, Yash Pal Kundal State President Young Panthers and other leaders staged a massive protest demonstration seeking immediate hike in the salary of the working class at Exhibition Ground on Tuesday. Harsh Chairman JKNPP while speaking to the media lambasted the State govt. for postponing the implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendations for the Government employees for another two years.
He said that the State dispensation divesting the employees of their long awaited salary benefits under the pretext of-fiscal liabilities was highly reprobate and discriminatory. He said that the coalition government in the State was least bothered about the welfare of the employees which had also failed to regularize the services of more than 60,000 casual employees who had been languishing and protesting in open for their demands since long.
He divulged that the people of Jammu region had voted BJP to power but unfortunately none of the Saffron party's MLAs could rake up the genuine issues of the people in the Assembly which had immensely dented the pride and honour of the electorate of Jammu region. He said that while giving a nod to the bill pertaining to doubling their salaries,the BJP legislators ruthlessly jettisoned the sensitive issues of casual workers viz-viz regularization of services of daily wagers and contractual employees working in various Govt. departments, regularization of services and release of salaries of ReT teachers, Temporary teachers, Academie Arrangements working in Govt. schools, colleges and polytechnics, regularization of SPOs, NYC volunteers, Anganwari / Asha workers. NRHM workers and other lower rung employees.
Flaying the political imbecility of the BJP, Mr. Yash Pal Kundal deplored that rather than raking up genuine and legitimate issues of the”public, the Saffron MLAs indulged in ridiculous clamouring inside the legislature over their salary, CDF, plots, powers thus making a mockery of themselves. He said that the Saffron party which would create ruckus over the issues of employees while in opposition had now openly indulged in realizing its petty vested interests. He said that the criminal silence and utter failure of the BJP had unveiled its incompetent, perfidious and servile character for which it would pay a heavy price in the coming days.
