AIIMS issue: ACC threatens stir if no action taken by July 21

The AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC) today threatened to launch a massive agitation if government failed to take action on the issue of setting up the premier medical institute in Jammu region before July 21.
"The people of Jammu must prepare themselves to start a relentless and result oriented movement after July 21 in case the PDP-BJP coalition government fails to honour the June 18 written agreement," ACC Chairman Abhinav Sharma said.
The deputy Chief Minister and other ministers of the state had on June 18 given a written assurance to the committee that they "shall obtain appropriate order in this regard from Government of India by or before July 20," he said.

"We have crossed just the first hurdle. There are many more hurdles yet to be crossed. Hence, it is imperative on the part of all of us to use the available time for mobilisation across Jammu region," the ACC chairman said.
"We cannot afford to go complacent just because we have got a written commitment from the BJP leader and deputy Chief Minister and Forest and Social Welfare Minister," Sharma said.
Stressing that people of Jammu region have suffered a lot because of complacency, he said, "We have to be alert and in an agitation mood to avert the possibility of the Kashmir-centric authorities cheating yet again the people of Jammu region."

The ACC chairman, who is also the President of J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, said all the constituents of the Committee have endorsed the agreement between ACC and the state ministers.

"Not a single constituent out of its nearly 100 constituents opposed the decision," he said.
Sharma said the AIIMS Coordination Committee would use the time till July 21 to inform people at district, tehsil and village level about the "discrimination against the people of Jammu".
"The people are aghast with the anti-Jammu policies and shifting of AIIMS from Jammu to Srinagar is the test of the limit of their patience," he said.