Dogra Sadar Sabha held a special meeting with the press including field reporters from a national channel. The meeting was attended by the DSS core group headed by Former Minister Th. Gulchain Singh Charak. The members jointly expressed great concern about the painful unabated bloodshed in Kashmir Valley as also the terror funding mechanism exposed by the NIA and reported in press.
Ex MLC Kupwara Shri Syed Rafiq Shah brought out that the struggle in Kashmir is not a battle of religions or communities. It is basically an outcome of the prolonged suppression of the non Kashmiri majority of the state comprising more than 80 percent by the Kashmiri speaking minority. It all began with Pt JL Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah nexus who wanted to divide the erstwhile princely J&K State. Large non Kashmiri speaking areas were therefore allowed to slip into Pakistani hands and efforts of retrieving them were blocked by hook and crook.
Col Dr Virendra Sahi, VrC brought out that unfortunately the national media has kept its focus wrongly on the Kashmiri speaking minority ignoring the much larger population and geographical areas of Jammu and Ladakh regions that comprise 3/4th of the State. The imposition of Kahmiri language of the ruling minority over the vast non Kashmiri population is one such example of government’s hegemony.
Ex MLC, Maj Gen Goverdhan Singh Jamwal pointed out that there has been deliberate, planned conspiracy to eliminate the Dogra identity. He clarified that Dogras are a secular race and do not confine to any particular region. He explained that Dogras from PoJK whom he met along with Th. Gulchain Singh Charak President DSS, in London recently were keen to visit their ancestral land of Dogras and had keen interest in Jammu. Shri GA Khawaja and Shri Sohail Kazmi also endorsed the views of the secular ethos and regional affinity of the Dogras.
Th. Gulchain Singh highlighted the discrimination with the Dogra region by successive central and state governments as also the biased reporting by the national and local media. He brought out that the heritage of Dogras was under neglect and the old Heritage complex at Mubarak Mandi that was symbol of the diversity in unity is turned to ruin and is near collapse. He reiterated that the Dogra regions are being neglected in every field of development, education, jobs and other opportunities. He warned that the J&K state is intact so far, because, of the nationalist population of Jammu and enemy is trying it’s best to pressurize Jammu by discrimination, changed demography, neglect and adverse propaganda. “Hold Jammu, to save the State and keep the nation intact” said President DSS.
Among others who shared views in the meeting included :- Dr. N. K. Dogra, Col. Karan Singh Jamwal (Retd.), Sh. Prem Sagar Gupta, Sh. Janak Khajuria, Brig. M. S. Jamwal (Retd.), Sh. Gambhir Dev Singh Charak, Sh. Syed Amanat Ali Shah, Sh. S. Peter & Sh. Imran Qazi.,
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