Jammu,03-03-2025. Leaders of Shiv Sena (UBT) Jammu and Kashmir unit held a strong protest today demanding special privileges under Section 371 for Jammu and Kashmir, a liquor ban in the “city of temples Jammu,” and strict laws on drug and cow smuggling.
Shiv Sainiks, under the leadership of party state head Manish Sahni, gathered at Indira Chowk and staged a protest and raised slogans holding placards with demands like “Strict laws should be implemented on drug and cow smuggling”, “Privileges under Section 371 should be restored”, “Sons of the soil should have the first right on jobs and educational institutions,” etc.
Sahni said in his address that in the last decade, narco terror has created terror in Jammu and Kashmir. On the other hand, liquor shops opened in every nook and corner of Jammu city are an attack on religious faith and tampering with the future of the youth. The statistics of drug abuse and smuggling are also terrifying. In Jammu and Kashmir, which has a population of about 1.25 crore, every tenth person is addicted to some kind of drug. The number of drug addicts coming to de-addiction centres has increased 100 times in the last 5 years. Every 10-15 minutes, a drug addict is reaching the OPD of government hospitals for treatment. He said that if timely measures are not taken, then in the coming times, the Pakistan-sponsored terror will be replaced by narco-terror, which can wipe out an entire generation.
Along with this, on the lines of the northeastern states of the country, a proposal has been demanded to be passed to protect the cultural identity of Jammu and Kashmir under Section 371 and to give the local people the first right to get government jobs and admission in educational institutions. He said that recently the BJP-ruled Uttarakhand government has also banned the purchase of land for people from outside the state. Sahni has demanded that the BJP MLAs bring and support a proposal against privileges under Section 371, prohibition of liquor, drug and cow smugglers. On this occasion, Meenakshi Chhibber, Vikas Bakshi, Bharat Mahajan, Raj Singh, Sukhwinder Kaur, Vicky Sharma, Davinder Kumar, Sunita Kumari, Yashpal Singh etc. were present.