New Delhi, March 04: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who visits Jammu and Kashmir Friday morning is to meet a series of delegations, including some political groups, social and refugee organisations. He will also attend the convocation of the Agriculture University and inauguration of flats for migrants here.
A meeting was held here on Thursday evening to review the arrangements for the visit.
Dr Singh is arriving here on Friday morning. Earlier, he was scheduled to start the visit late Thursday evening, but a sudden change was made in his plan. The reasons were not made public by the officials.
Meanwhile, there is a great deal of resentment among some of the refugee groups over what they call “discriminatory treatment” being meted out to them. “Why are there no flats for us, who have been living as refugees for the past 63 years,” asked Rajiv Chuni, president of SOS International, an organisation of the people who were displaced following tribal invasion of the state in 1947.
The refugees from Pakistan-administered Kashmir were beaten by police while they were staging a protest against “discriminatory treatment” of the government.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate residential flats for Kashmiri Pandit migrants at Jagti, about 20 km from Jammu.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will also hold discussions with Governor NN Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the situation in the state, besides addressing a convocation of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu.
Omar Abdullah in his tweet ON Thursday evening said: “Seems we have everything in place for the Prime Minister’s visit to Jammu tomorrow.”
—IANS