Ghulam Nabi Azad visits Dhangri terror victim families & also paid homage to martyr soldiers.

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 
SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI, MAY 25:–During his maiden visit to Rajouri district after the formation of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), Ghulam Nabi Azad met with the terror victim families in Dhangri village and expressed his grief over the tragedy that struck them and also condemned the heinous act against humanity.
In the evening Ghulam Nabi Azad paid homage to ten soldiers at PWD Dakbunglow who attained martyrdom in two terror attacks in Bhata Dhurian (Poonch) and Kandi (Rajouri) areas on April 20 & May 5 respectively.
According to the report Saroj Bala, who lost her two sons, namely Deepak and Prince & is the only survivor in the family in the terror attack, skipped the Ghulam Nabi visit resenting that he took five months to visit victim families.
When contacted Saroj Bala said: “I am not feeling well. But even then nobody visited me to express sympathy”.
While interacting with the victim families in the house of deceased Pritam Singh & his son Shishu Pal, Ghulam Nabi said that the barbaric act of terrorism deserves condemnation.
“At the same time, such acts warrant unity above the caste, creed & religion to fight it back in equal force. While the militancy dying in other areas of the state, spurt in terror attacks in this region, especially in Rajouri, is a matter of concern and the security of the people should be the priority of the government,” said Ghulam Nabi Azad.
He added that incidents of terrorism across the Pir Panchal range must end since it imbibes a sense of insecurity among people.
He demanded further strengthening of VDCs and the permanent deployment of Security Forces as the entire area (Pir Panjal) has tough terrains and borders (LoC).
Ghulam Nabi Azad expressed his concern that the perpetrators of Dhangri are still untraced and demanded further strengthening of the intelligence grid.
“I have assured the victim families and the locals to take up the issue of their security and full proof security of the entire areas with the Defence Minister,” said Ghulam Nabi.
He also expressed his displeasure over statements like that the perpetrators came from across the border and after killing the innocent persons again crossed back to the other side of the LoC.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he couldn’t come earlier to meet the Dhangri victim families as he was not keeping well.
At Rajouri, he said that when he was Union Health Minister, he besides initiating several developmental works also sanctioned Medical College at Rajouri and assured many more developmental works in this region if his party comes to power.
Several delegations from Sunderbani, Nowshera, and other areas met Ghulam Nabi Azad on the first day of his two-day visit to Rajouri.
Prominent who accompanying Ghulam Nabi Azad include General Secretary R.S.Chib; Chief Spokesperson, Salman Nizami; Ex-MLC & Provincial Vice-President, Ashok Sharma; DDC & Secretary, DDC & Spokesperson, Ch. Imran Zaffar; Secretary & WC Member, Choudhary Masood; Zonal President, Zahid Malik, & district president, Sushil Sharma.