Withdraw Jiziya type Toll Tax or face agitation: IkkJutt Jammu
18/10/2019
Jammu, Oct 17: Sharing the popular concern of the people of Jammu province in the wake of imposition of Jiziya type Toll Tax, IkkJutt Jammu warned the authorities to withdraw it forthwith or get ready to face an agitation.
IkkJutt Jammu said that the imposition of toll tax in Jammu is a willful move on the part of the authorities to wreck Jammu's economy by discouraging pilgrims to the holy Shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi.
Addressing a press conference here today IkkJutt Jammu Chairman Ankur Sharma said that it had become the habit of the powers that be to impose such taxes again and again to cripple the Hindu majority Jammu's economy. He said that the recent decision of the Govt of India to impose heavy toll tax at different places on National Highway 44 leading to Katra is an extension of the policy which was adopted by the PDP-BJP Govt. in 2015 under which 12.5 percent Jiziya was imposed on Chopper services to the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi, Baba Amarnath and other Hindu religious places. This Hindu discriminatory attitude of Govt is utterly unacceptable, said Ankur Sharma.
Ankur Sharma further said that the manner in which the NHAI has flouted its own rules to impose anti-Hindu toll tax is glaringly evident> It should be known that the distance between the two toll plazas and from the Municipal limits concerned is a clear indication that the intentions of the authorities are not novel. How could the NHAI set up and propose to set up four toll plazas within a distance of less than 80 kilometers on the same NH 44?.
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