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Ousted J&K minister Lal Singh says will fight to restore Dogra pride after Kathua horror

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Singh says the Dogra community has been portrayed as ‘rapists’ by the Kashmiri and Delhi media, while the Jammu media has been ignored.

New Delhi: On a day when the BJP MLA from Kathua, Rajiv Jasrotia, was sworn in as a minister in the Jammu and Kashmir cabinet, ousted forest minister Chaudhary Lal Singh said he would continue his fight to restore “Dogra pride”, which has been “severely hit” by the gang rape and murder of the eight-year-old Bakerwal girl.

Singh and his colleague Chander Prakash Ganga’s removal from the Mehbooba Mufti cabinet was reportedly linked to their speeches – allegedly in support of the accused — at a rally organised by the Hindu Ekta Manch on 1 March. Jasrotia was also present at the rally.

Singh told ThePrint that only the party leadership can answer why Jasrotia was inducted into the cabinet whereas he was asked to resign.

“We were sent to the rally by (state BJP chief) Sat Paul Sharma. The question on why he (Jasrotia) was inducted into the cabinet can only be answered by the BJP leadership, not me,” Singh said. Sharma himself was inducted into the state cabinet Monday.

Singh, however, said his ouster didn’t matter to him anymore, and that he would fight till the end, “till the investigations are handed over to CBI”.

“After this incident, the Dogras of Jammu have been portrayed as rapists by the Kashmiri and also the Delhi media to the country and the world. I am fighting to restore their pride. The incident was presented in a biased manner. Jammu’s media was completely ignored in the whole incident,” said Singh.

On Monday, Singh led a rally in Kathua reiterating the demand for a CBI probe into the gang rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua’s Rasana village in January this year, despite the fact that trials have begun on separate petitions. The J&K Police crime branch has already filed a chargesheet in the case.

As per Singh’s estimates, the rally was attended by more than a thousand people, seen chanting slogans in his praise in the various videos which surfaced. The former minister said he would organise another rally in Katra Tuesday, and expected a good attendance there too.

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