Saturday, August 22, 2009

Address to a public rally at Gujjar Patti

Darakhshan in Remote Gujjar Basti of Basantgarh
13.6.20
The Early Times, Jammu
Socialistic Democratic Party today held a public rally in a remote hilly area inhibited by Gujjar Community in Kirchi hillock in Doodu Basantgarh area of Ramnagar constituency. It was the first ever political congregation of any political party in that area where for the last sixty years of democratic rule in the state none of the political leaders visited these tribal areas abandoned by the facilities of modern day life.This rally was organized by SDP incharge of that area Kamal Chand. Dr Darakhshan Andrabi,SDP supremo alongwith his party leaders Ajay Sharma, Thakur Baldev Singh, Ajay Raina, Rajiv Bhagat, Mohammad Yousuf Rather and Sardar Gursagar Singh.Dr Darakhshan and her team traveled many kilometers on foot to reach out to these deserted and isolated people. She traveled door to door in more than four localities where she got the first hand appraisal of the difficulties faced by these poor tribal people. In her address to the gathering there, SDP president Dr Darakhshan Andrabi expessed her shock and surprise on the backwardness and life without all day to day facilities in the locality while the elected representatives of the area and the government have been continuously making magaphonic claims of development in the area and the state respectively. Dr Darakhshan criticized the bureaucrats and development agencies of the area for ignoring this large population who have no access to education and the development. She assured the population of the area that she would fight for their rights and will strike hard to wake up the concerned government agencies and departments from their criminal slumber to help this isolated and deprived class of the society.

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