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End of J-K special status harbinger of hope and justice to Jammu's Valmikis

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : Aug 09 2019 | 2:55 PM IST

The revocation of provisions of Article 370 has given hope to
Nodding in agreement, Radhika, a young Valmiki community woman, added, "As the J&K government needed sanitary workers for the city, they even allocated land to our an ancestors and settled them on them."
Eklavya lamented, "We were never made state's subject, never given the right to get the state government's job and other rights."
Valmiki Samaj president Garu Bhatti told PTI, "It is like a dream come true for us. We thank Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for providing us and our children opportunity to prosper as a community, which was virtually untouchable in J&K."


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First Published: Aug 09 2019 | 2:55 PM IST

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