AJKYF shows anguish over not including Pahari, Gojri and other languages, welcome inclusion of Dogri, Kashmir

Dividing people in the name of languages, another step of central government: Nakul Sharma

Rajouri /Kalakote,September,05:– Central government is hell bent to take every possible step to divide the comman masses in the name of languages said Mr. Nakul Sharma, Spokesperson, All J&K Youth Federation (AJKYF) while lambasting Central government for not including Pahari, Gojri, Punjabi and Sheeni in the list of official languages of Jammu and Kashmir and welcome the inclusion of Dogri and Kashmiri languages.

AJKYF Spokesperson said that introducing Dogri and Kashmiri along with Hindi, Urdu and English as official languages is welcome step for the people of J&K but simultaneously ignoring Pahari, Gojri, Punjabi, Sheeni and other languages having huge population across the downgraded state is highly regrettable and needs to be included immediately.

AJKYF Spokesperson future said that exclusion of Pahari, Gojri and other languages from J&K Official Language Bill is a grave injustice towards all the communities who have share a major chunk of population in J&K and the same is done with an intention to degrade their identities.

AJKYF Spokesperson demanded including of Pahari, Gojri and other deserving language as the official languages of Jammu and Kashmir to protect and respect the sentiments and emotions of large population speaking Pahari, Gojri and other languages and urged upon the Central government to immediately consider the demands of including local languages in the bill to be presented before the parliament.

An appeal was made by the federation to all political parties having representation in Parliament to support the cause of Pahari, Gojri, Punjabi and sheeni speaking people for inclusion of their languages in the list of Jammu and Kashmir Official languages.