Jammu: Ahead of crafting Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) final poll strategy in Jammu and Kashmir, a frontal right wing organisation, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Forum, backed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Sunday raised a poll pitch in support of reclaiming parts of Jammu and Kashmir under the “illegal occupation of Pakistan''.
The event, organised in the premises of Padma Shri Padma Sachdev Government PG College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, witnessed a huge presence of displaced refugees from areas of Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). The venue of the memorial ceremony was painted in colors of the National tricolor.
Senior BJP leaders from the region also attended the function along with their supporters. The local BJP leaders along with their supporters were working overtime to ensure the grand success of the memorial ceremony. Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the local BJP unit, facing the wrath of the common public, wanted to test political waters and their support base in the city of temples.
Several religious leaders also attended the 'Shradhanjali and Punyabhoomi Smarn Sabha' along with PoJK refugees from across the nation.
On the occasion rich tributes were paid to the saviours of Jammu and Kashmir and to those who lost their lives to save their families during the Pakistani invasion on October 22, 1947. A small documentary giving graphic details of the brutal attack by the Pakistani invaders was also exhibited for the audience.
Speaking on the occasion a senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Surendra Jain raised a pitch for reclaiming parts of Jammu and Kashmir under the “illegal occupation of Pakistan”.
Amid chants for liberation of PoJK, the VHP leader said “whether you want compensation or land of your ancestors and religious places like Sharada Peeth…the pledge you have taken is shortly becoming a reality,” he said.
Jain said it is not an issue related to Hindus and Muslims as many nationalist Muslims were also killed by the Pakistani raiders in 1947.
Without naming National Conference, Congress and PDP, he said “the role of a few families who ruled J&K in past decades is over. Now only the writ of the country and the people of J&K will run in J&K.”
Referring to the reorganisation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the VHP leader said , “the Article 370 is done away and its restoration is not possible. It has become part of a history and so are the questions which were being raised time and again over the legality of the accession of J&K with India even as the Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler, had signed the same accession document like the rulers of other princely states.” He said the only issue is the fulfilment of the resolution passed unanimously by the Parliament on February 22, 1994, emphasizing that Pakistan must vacate parts of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation. (Agencies)
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