JAMMU: Apni Party general secretary, Vikram Malhotra has urged Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) to regularize sanitization workers who keep the city clean. Speaking at a function, Malhotra said that it is unfortunate that JMC is ignoring the genuine demands of sanitization workers.
“The sanitization workers keep our city clean, but they themselves live a miserable life,” he said demanding a comprehensive regularization policy for these people and their mandatory health checkup. The Apni Party leader also said that the sanitization workers keep the residential areas, markets and public places clean while there is no guarantee to their jobs. “The corrupt officials are stumbling blocks in the way of regularization and they are behind the exploitation of sanitization workers,” he maintained adding that Smart City is only possible with clean city. Meanwhile, Suresh Kumar, Suriya, Neetu, Baby, Vikram and others joined the Apni Party in presence of senior party leaders and they were welcomed into the party folds by Apni Party provincial president Jammu, Manjit Singh who claimed that their party agenda is based on secularism, unity and equality of all.
The programme was attended by Jammu district president, Pranav Shagotra; J&K Trade Union president, Ajaz Kazmi; provincial president Jammu Youth Wing, Gourav Kapoor; Shabir Kohli, Rupali Rani, Raj Kumar Sharma, Vijay Magotra, Sapna Gill, Sanjay Kumar, Vipul Bali and others.
