JKNPP demands ex-gratia for jawans killed in Uri attack

Accusing the BJP-PDP coalition government of showing "disrespect" to the soldiers killed in the Uri attack, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) activists today staged a protest demanding ex-gratia relief for the kin of the two jawans from the state who died.
"The state government has shown irreverence towards the Dogra and Bihar regiments jawans who attained martyrdom in Pakistan-sponsored terror attack at Uri, the party seeks ex-gratia for the next of the kin of martyrs," JKNPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh said.
Flaying the "callousness" of the state government in announcing the ex-gratia relief for the families of the slain soldiers, he said while other states have announced financial assistance for the families, only Jammu and Kashmir was yet to announce anything.

It was a matter of sheer irony that while the state legislators had voted themselves a "whopping hike in their salaries", the state treasury always remains empty for the martyrs, Singh said.
"Likewise, the government was paying compensation to the families of stone pelters, monthly honorarium to surrendered militants and grants for rehabilitation of them but had declined ex-gratia to martyrs," Singh said.