Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) on Tuesday held protest demonstrations here against curtailment of ration, price hike, property tax, shortage of water and electricity.
The protest was led by General Secretary R S. Chib who and DPAP workers expressed concern over curtailment of ration, rise in prices of essential commodities, rising unemployment and issues of electricity and potable water saying the anti-people measures have taken toll on every aspect of life in Jammu Kashmir.
“The authorities have cut down the monthly ration quota to consumers in J&K, supply of kerosene oil to consumers has disappeared, price hike and unemployment is breaking all records,” he said.
The protestors demanded restoration of monthly ration quota to consumers and roll back of imposition of property tax and other “anti-people” decisions.
After the protest rally, DPAP leaders presented the memorandum of demands to Deputy Commissioner Rajouri Vikas Kundal. The memorandum contained all the demands for which DPAP has been holding peaceful protest rallies for the past several months.
On the instructions of its Chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad, DPAP has held several rallies, protests and public outreach programmes in past weeks. Public outreach programmes, as per DPAP, are aimed at having first-hand accounts of public issues.
Among others who were part of the protest include Anita Thakur General Secretary, Ex MLA Ashok Sharma VP Jammu Province, Adv Masood Choudhary State Secretary & Working Committee Member, Lovely Gupta State Secretary, Susheel Gupta Distt President Rajouri, Subash Vaid Secretary, Hassan Mirza Youth President, Susheel Jamwal, Kashmir Singh, Rameshwar Sharma, Capt Joginder Singh, Ashwani Sharma, Er Vishal Sharma, Ashok Bhagat, Kulwant Singh, Suraj Sharma, Paramvir, S. Rajinder Singh, Rameez Khan and others.
