Members of the Uttarakhand Nagrik Manch (UNM), blaming the State Government for its apathetic attitude towards the statehood activists, demanded that the five Statehood activists missing since 1994 be declared dead and that their dependents be given government jobs.
Addressing the media persons, Shankar Singh Bhatia, the convener of the UNM, said that the relatives of the natural calamity victims were given assistance by the State Government within three months of the disaster but the kin of the statehood martyrs are still struggling to get any support from the government.
They are being consistently ignored by the government.DC Nautiyal, ex-president of Diploma Engineers Union, stated that the at least one family member of the statehood activists' family should be given Government job.
He added that the missing agitators should be declared dead and the 42 statehood activists who died during the Statehood struggle should be accorded the status of martyrs.
The relatives of the missing activists should be given a sum of `10 lakh by the State Government, he added.