Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU Aug 22: One day convention of Pahari people was held at Conference Hall Dak Bungalow Rajouri in which several delegates belonging to Pahari ethnicity from different parts of Rajouri and Poonch showed their participation. All the speakers during the convention raised the demand for providing ST status to them which is a genuine issue being ignored by the earlier Governments due to unknown reasons. They expressed that this time the present regime is led by a powerful stable Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They further said that since 1989 almost all Governors and Chief Ministers have recommended to the Govt of India to grant ST status to the Pahari Tribe. Delegates added that every member of the tribe will show remarkable gratitude to the Government for rendering ST status. The delegates after meeting framed a working group based on volunteer participation and claimed to hold such opinion raising programmes in different nooks and corners of Pahari area. Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included- Nagesh Sharma Ayub Pehalwan Gurdev Singh Raja Mehmood Khan Ahsan Mirza Vikrant Sharma Tazeem Dar Sajjad Mirza Bashir Khan Altaf Janjua Harish Bharti Karamaat Malik Sanjeev Mangu CP Sharma Jagdish Raj Sharma Arun sharma Khem Raj Sharma Wasim Mirza Kewal Sharma Rashpaul Malla and Som Khajuria.

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