The IkkJutt Jammu Party (IJP) on Sunday launched a movement across Jammu province for 'Separate Jammu State'. A large number of party supporters led by its president Ankur Sharma held a massive demonstration in Jammu while similar marches were taken out at other places in the province in support of their demand seeking separation of Jammu province from Kashmir.
Addressing the party workers outside Press Club Jammu, IJP President Advocate Ankur Sharma said the only rational, national and constitutional solution to the 75-year-old Jammu’s political problem is Full State status for the province.
He said the historic reforms of August 5, 2019 have miserably failed to produce the desired results and the people of Jammu continue to suffer.
Leading the protest march, Ankur Sharma repeatedly said, "IJP only wants Statehood for Jammu. “Statehood for Jammu is our motto, our battle-cry, our watchword, the gospel of Jammu’s political redemption".
“Separate Jammu state is the only panacea available to meet the national requirement, empower the people of the province to manage their own affairs themselves, defeat the enemies working day and night to change Jammu’s demography and create Kashmir-like situation in this strategic region,†asserted the IJP president. “The people of Jammu province will rise in revolt sooner than later if the powers-that-be in New Delhi continued to treat Jammu as Kashmir’s colony in its desperate bid to appease, please and pamper the 'Jihadists' in Kashmir,†he warned.
