Excelsior Correspondent
RS PURA, Sept 13: Intensifying election campaign, JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla today organized door-to-door campaign in various Panchayats, RS Pura town and outskirts of RS Pura Jammu South constituency.
He was accompanied by Sarpanch Ravinder Singh, Sarpanch Fateh Chand, ex BDC Chairman Dalip Kumar, Charanjeet Bhagat, Jasmeet Singh, Vikas Kant, Rakesh Kumar and others.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that Jammu and Kashmir “lost its identity” under the BJP and appealed to the people to support Congress in the fight for the restoration of Statehood. “BJP regime has destroyed Jammu and Kashmir in various spheres, as it lost its identity, status, right over jobs, lands, opportunities of trade and transport and business besides whatsoever selections and recruitment were done in the UT, witnessed corruption and scams,” he said.
“People have been exploited in the name of a bright future, control prices, and two crore jobs annually. But all their promises have fallen flat, except politics of hate and division. Jammu and Kashmir was a historical state with much better living conditions than most states in the country, but now it has been pushed into an atmosphere of political uncertainty,” Bhalla added.
He said that further delay in restoring Statehood was bound to cause more disconnect between the Centre and J&K people, who he said were feeling hurt after the Centre’s move to downgrade the historical and full-fledged State into two Union Territories without their consent. “The Centre has to address that disconnect, at the right earnest, keeping in view the urges and aspirations of the people,” he said.
Bhalla asserted that Congress is the only viable alternative to the “divisive policies” of the BJP which he said, “has vitiated the political, social, secular, and democratic atmosphere in the country and Jammu and Kashmir”.
Bhalla said people of Jammu and Kashmir have been left without an elected government for the last six years. The last Vidhan Sabha elections were held in 2014 and four seats in the Rajya Sabha remain vacant because of the delay in holding assembly polls. The terms of 4,892 Panchayats and 316 Block Development Councils also came to an end on January 9, 2024. The blame for this suspension of democracy lies entirely with the Centre.
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