Jammu Mar 21 PTI Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Monday termed August 5 2019 as black day for Jammu and Kashmir and said the people are facing multiple issues including loot of their resources in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370 He claimed that the BJP will taste a crushing defeat in the next assembly elections for its anti-people policies I want to ask those people who did injustice with J-K on August 5 2019 - the day we consider as black day - that their perception about Article 370 being the stumbling block in the development has failed Bukhari said addressing a public rally at Vijaypur in Samba district He said the 200-year-old J and K state was reduced to a Union Territory and one of its parts Ladakh was also separated after creating a perception among the people that the scrapping of Article 370 was important to allow development in the region In last four years of your rule we have not seen any development Instead the mining and wine mafia from UP and Bihar have taken over the natural resources and started unchecked loot he said expressing anger over the growing unemployment underdevelopment and poor health care facilities at the village level He said the Apni Party would not allow these outsiders in J-K The resources of J-K belong to the people of the erstwhile state and if we come to power we will throw them out of Lakhanpur He said after the revocation of Article 370 the people are facing multiple issues and there is a need to have an elected government It seems that until an elected government comes to power the present form of government will loot the resources using the outsiders he alleged He questioned those who celebrated the abrogation of special status and said time has come when people have to stand up like Punjab and fight back to throw the mafia out of J-K We have to fight like people in Punjab where they changed the traditional political parties and made a choice for a better future Therefore the people of J-K should also support the Apni Party for equitable development and employment Bukhari said Questioning the snatching of land from the people in Jammus different districts including Samba and Kathua on the pretext of anti-encroachment drive he said it was not the right of the government to evict people from the land which they cultivated for decades We will not allow harassment of the people in J-K The Apni Party will fight it back and restore the rights of the people on such lands which belong to them for a long time he said He said the people of Jammu are in great distress because of the BJP which misled them when they revoked J-Ks special status on August 5 2019 pretending that flood gates of development and employment will open thereafter Do you find any development or employment he asked and claimed that the BJP will not be able to cross the double figures during the next assembly elections in J-K Bukhari said the Darbar Move a practice under which the government used to function six months each in Srinagar and Jammu was stopped suddenly which was against the economic interests of Jammu businessmen I want to ask a question to the business community in Jammu who support BJP whether the decision was in their favour No it was not in their favour as the business of Jammu was hit badly and the coordinal relations between the two regions were also affected with this decision he said He said if his party comes to power it will restore the practice in favour of the two regions their people and the business community Bukahri said their struggle for the restoration of statehood to J-K will continue PTI TAS TAS AQS AQS

New Delhi Jan 27 PTI Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that in the last nearly eight years a conscious effort has been made to provide equitable development and attention to every region of Jammu Kashmir It has ignited confidence and self-esteem in every section of society and the region he said The Minister of State for Personnel said this in an interaction during a lunch hosted for the Jammu Kashmir tableau team members who had performed in the Republic Day celebrations at Rajpath here on Wednesday The team of artists along with choreographers and musicians have also been given appointment to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry said The members of the team expressed their overwhelming joy at the support and encouragement offered by the minister and also the hospitality given by him it said Unlike on several earlier occasions this was a rare Republic Day function at Rajpath in which the Jammu Kashmir tableau was primarily dominated by culture and art of the Jammu region and the face of the tableau displayed Mata Vaishno Devi Bhawan along with other monumental projects like worlds highest rail bridge in Reasi and institutions like AIIMS IIT and IIM which have come up in the region during the recent years under the Modi government the statement saidThe background music and lyrics were also based on Jammus popular folk songs Sadha-e-Jammu Sadhi Bakhri Pehchan it said Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last nearly eight years a conscious effort has been made to provide equitable development and equitable attention to every region of Jammu Kashmir said Singh a Lok Sabha member from J-Ks Udhampur constituency He said a very few people are aware that entry of any state or UT tableau in a Republic Day programme at national level has to go through different stages of competition and trial and many states and UTs get excluded in the process and lose the opportunity to be included in the Republic Day programme Singh had a detailed interaction with each member of the team individually and said they were the cultural ambassadors of the regionHe assured each one of them every possible support for upgradation of their skill and performance PTI AKV RCJ

Jammu Sep 29 PTI The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jammu CCIJ on Wednesday said it will continue its fight for cause of the Jammu province with intensification of movement till it reaches the final conclusion This was conveyed by stakeholders during a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry held here under the chairmanship of Arun Gupta president of CCI Jammu Chamber will continue to fight for cause of Jammu province till this significant battle for genuine rights reaches a logical conclusion Gupta said while warning the government not to test patience of the business community He vowed that the Jammu Chamber will continue to work relentlessly for ensuring that justice is secured for the people of this province especially the traders and industrialists fraternity We will further intensify its movement by even resorting to long term agitation in case the government fails to accept their demands at the earliest Gupta said He urged the government to consider the demands raised by it at the earliest All the demands raised by the Chamber pertaining to various sections of the society across the Jammu province are quite genuine and there is no reason for the government to turn blind eye to the aspirations of people of this province he said The meeting was held in connection with the multifarious demands of the people of the Jammu province for which a complete Jammu bandh supported by various organisations was observed on September 22 on the call of CCI Todays meeting was attended by members of various traders and other associations to discuss the future course of action after the aforesaid successful Jammu Bandh a JCCI spokesman said During the meeting various burning issues currently confronted by the business fraternity were deliberated at length besides discussing the means to be adopted in order to get these issues resolved he added CCIJ has put forth various demands in front of the government including special relief package for various trade and industry sectors and continuation of darbar move an age-old practice under which the JK government functions six months each in the twin capital cities It also discussed the possibility of Wagah-type parade at Suchetgarh and revoking of the notification regarding re-registration of vehicles purchased by local residents from outside the UT and the issue of reliance shops among others PTI AB HRS hrs