Balbir Ram: WP refugees incl SCs to get all the denied rights under Domicile Certificate

WATSUPPTODAY.COM NEWS DESK | JAMMU

BJP Spokesperson, Balbir Ram Rattan Friday said that 70 per cent among the West Pakistan Refugees are from SC community and the provision of Domicile Certificate for them will entitle them to claim all rights and benefits as respectable citizens like those in other parts of the country. It will also benefit a large population of OBCs as well as 5300 PoJK Displaced families living outside Jammu Kashmir. The issue of grant of citizenship rights to these sections was pending for almost seven decades.
He was addressing media persons at Nagbani in Jammu Rural District, along with District President Rajinder Singh Chib, District General Secretaries Kasturi Lal Sharma and Sham Lal Sharma.
He added that various other issues which were pending for decades together saw the light of the day during the first year of Modi’s second term. The Sikh community across the country had been demanding access to Kartarpur since 1956 and a resolution was also passed by Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee in this regard but the Congress governments did not pay any heed. Narendra Modi government has got it done and the Sikhs can now visit religious and historic Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, where first Guru of Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev ji, spent the last twelve years of his life and expired there.
Balbir said that the Muslim women had been living miserable lives under the fear of Tripple Talaq, which too has been banned, thus paving way for honourable and dignified life for them.
Narendra Modi government has resolved the long pending issue of Ram Mandir and cleared the obstacles in its construction.
Minimum Support Price for 23 crops at 30 -50 per cent has been enhanced during this period.
These few achievements, which are hallmark of first year of second term of government at the centre, clearly show that PM is taking care of all faiths and sections of the society, thus proving ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas’ as the basic manta of governance.
During the ongoing Corona Crisis, India has achieved the distinction to be at top position in cases of testing and recoveries, which has been possible only because of the honest and sincere efforts of the Modi government.
Balbir said that during the first tenure, the government under PM Narendra Modi had launched a record number of welfare schemes for all sections, including poor, dalits, women, youth, farmers, border people, senior citizens, ex servicemen etc.
Similarly a number of prestigious educational and professional institutions for Jammu and Kashmir, particularly Jammu, like IIT, IIM, AIIMS, Medical Colleges, and Cluster University were sanctioned and many of them became functional in 2014-2019.
In the development field, mega projects of power generation, widening of roads, expansion of Airport, modernization of Jammu Railway Station and extension of rail link etc were taken up in previous tenure.