Wednesday 24 August 2011

Tribute to be paid to martyrs of Amarnath agitation.


Jammu (23/08/2011) : Shri Amarnath Shaheed Memorial Trust and Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti  will pay a tribute to  to the martyrs of Amarnath land row agitation  at Geet Bhawan, Prade on 31st of August this year.  This day will be celebrated as 'Swabhiman Divas". 

On this day nationalist people of Jammu & Kashmir successively restored the land allotment  for Shri Amarnath Shrine Board which was earlier cancelled  by the state Govt. under the pressure of separatists, after that a massive agitation out broke in Jammu, Ladhak & other parts of India.It was a historic agitation which sent a clear message that the people of Jammu will not tolerate any discrimination and that they can achieve what they deserve.  In this agitation 14 sons of the soil laid their lives. Twelve got martyrdom during the agitation while two seriously injured died after the victory of Amarnath land agitation. 

The great martyrs  those laid down their lives during that agitation were  Manjit Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Kuldeep Verma, Sunil Singh, Jugal Kishore, Sanjeev Singh Samyal, Sunny Padha, Narinder Sharma, Dr. Balwant Khajuria, Deepak Kumar, Bodh Raj, Girdhari Lal. Two youth namely and Satish Pandita & Raghu Nandan those were injured during the agitation died after the victory of that agitation.All the nationalist organisations  and the families of the martyrs are invited in this 'Swabhiman Divas"  To remember the martyrdom of the martyrs Sangarsh Samiti has created a Sheed memorial trust which  will construct a memorial in the name of these martyrs at Jammu.

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