SOS International chairman Rajiv Chuni along with his team visit victim families in Dhangri
Rajouri, Jan 07: SOS International chairman Rajiv Chuni along with his team today visited victim families of PoJK Displaced Persons in Dhangri area of Rajouri, who were targeted by Pakistan sponsored terrorists on January 1, resulting into death of six innocent persons and grievous injuries to nine others.
Besides conveying their condolence and grief with the bereaved families of Saroj Bala, Pritam Lal and Sat Paul, Team SOS International also held a programme at Dak Bunglow in Dhangri for paying homage to those martyred in the target killings.
While paying tributes to the martyrs and later talking to the media persons, SOS International chairman Rajiv Chuni charged the Government with failure to protect the PoJK families settled in Dhangri area after their exodus from Pak occupied area of Mendhar tehsil in 1947. He demanded that the terrorists who carried out this heinous act of targeted killings should be traced out and eliminated.
Reminding that the Government is duty bound to provide security to its every citizen irrespective of caste and creed, Rajiv Chuni said that had the Government taken adequate measure and not taken back weapons of the VDC members, terrorists would not have succeeded to attack. However, he added, the Displaced community will not cow down to such terror attacks and seek refuse to safe places but remain at their settlements and fight the terrorists tooth and nail.
“These families of my community were settled here with assurance that their homeland would be liberated soon. But neither the occupied territory was liberated nor these Displaced families were fully rehabilitated,” he said and lamented that those DPs, who were landlords before 1947, were forced to do labour or petty jobs for feeding their families after their exodus as the Government did not support them despite the Cabinet Committee recommendations for reservations and financial package to the DPs.
Reiterating that the Government must provide adequate security to the minority community as well as cash relief of Rs one crore and job to the each victim family, Rajiv Chuni exhorted the PoJK Displaced families to remain united for getting justice. He also appealed the community to maintain communal harmony at any cost and foil nefarious designs of the enemies of brotherhood.
Others who spoke on the occasion, included VK Datta, Ved Raj Bali, Ashok Sharma, Subash Sharma, Sushil Sharma, Yogesh Sharma, Satinder Dev Gupta, Vijay Guru, Capt Ravinder, Sharda Devi, Rajinder Sharma, Balbir Singh, Jyoti Saroop, Khem Raj, Kewal Sharma, Pritam Sharma and Others.
