Joiint action committee general category Poonch Hold Meet

Poonch January 30 :- A meeting of Joiint action committee general category Poonch held at dak bunglow Poonch convened by Er. Saleem Banday and under the chairmanship of Shaheen Ahmed Khan CPO  presided over Senior advocate and chairman peoples forum  Sanjay Raina. Large number of people including employees, students and youth from tehsil Haveli and Mandi participated.

The speakers thanked Hon’ble Governor Satya Pal Malik for granting 3 percent reservation to Pahari people. They said after the long struggle of more than 4 decades the pahari community has get recoganisation.

The speakers also recalled the sacrifices made by the leaders of pahari community in achieving the cause including Late Mohd.Din Banday the first vice chairman of pahari advisory board who had drafted the plan of pahari people for getting ST status and the file submitted to the state govt for further submitting to govt of india. They also mentioned the efforts of Mirza Abdul Rashid ex MP, forner ministers Mohd.shafi uri .Rafiq Hussain Khan,Mir Poonchi,Mushtaq Bukhari and many other pahari leaders of the state.
They said it’s the beginning of success by getting 3 percent reservation .our main goal is to achieve ST status. We welcome the ST status given to gujjar and bakerwal community and demanded the same should be granted to us also.
Others who spoke were Advocate Anjum,Advocate Bhanu Partap,Dr.owais,Dr.Balbir Singh, Naveed Sheikh,Sayed Bakar Rizvi, Riaz Ahmed,Mohd.Dilpazeer , Ravinder Bitta, Yugal Kishore chairman saman seva society, Ajit Singh,Nawaz Malik Gagandeep singh and many more