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JAMMU: JKPCC Vice President Raman Bhalla on Tuesday said the shrinking of job avenues has pushed Jammu and Kashmir youth to the wall, as they see their future bleak under BJP dispensation.
“The tall claims of government with regard to empowerment of youth are falling flat, as they were getting further alienated by nepotism and political considerations guiding the recruitment”, he said.
This was stated by him while attending an impressive programme by youth of Gandhi Nagar constituency to highlight their issues and grievances.
Bhalla accused BJP government of failing in bringing a job policy and said the initiatives taken during the previous government led by Congress have been negated.
He said unemployment continues to be a biggest challenge for industrially underdeveloped Jammu and Kashmir but the insensitive dispensation is yet to appreciate this phenomenon.
In this context he referred to SKEPWY besides Udaan and Himayat programmes and said these had rekindled hope among the unemployed educated but political myopism has taken them backwards.
Bhalla said Congress will not be a fence sitter on issue concerning them. He said the youth had to be provided ample opportunities to flourish but the present government is playing with their careers by blocking all avenues of their growth.
Exhorting Youth Congress workers to generate awareness about anti-youth and anti-people policies of the government, Bhalla said that instead of focusing on governance and development, Govt was indulging in antagonizing different segments of society, especially the youth to divert the attention from real issues.
He said BJP has miserably failed in fulfilling promises made to the people before and after the elections.
“They appear to be busy in futile issues as a result of which the governance has taken rear seat”, he added.
To hide their failures, administrative naivety and acts of omission and commission, the BJP leaders resorted to exploitative politics with mistaken belief of hoodwinking the people of Jammu again, he said.
Bhalla said that no sooner the Jammu BJP got exposed for pursuing personal agenda rather than doing public good, the people realized their mistake of reposing their trust by giving a huge mandate in 2014.
“Now that they are back to the pavilion, the people of this region reserve a right to ask their so-called representatives to showcase their record card of over seven years.
The people would like to know the corrective measures the BJP representatives took to end their much trumpeted slogan of discrimination. In fact, he said, the region got hugely neglected in every sphere-be it employment, development and other spheres of economic activity.