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JAMMU: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla on Wednesday appealed people of J&K to reject the pro rich and anti youth, anti farmers and anti poor BJP for peace and prosperity in the region.
Prominent among those present on the occasion include JKPCC Refugee Cell Vice Chairman Amrit Bali, Madam Gurmeet Kour, Punjab Singh, Natha Ram, Kapoor Lal, Dhanwant Singh, Mohinder Singh Khalsa, Vicky Kumar, Teja Singh ,Swran Singh beside others.
Addressing largely attended public meeting as a part of party’s mass contact programme to mobilize public opinion against BJP’s wrong policies and programmes at Hakal, Bhalla cornered BJP government over various issues.
He slammed the BJP government for using public money for polishing their own image through massive advertisement. The fact is that the BJP government has failed to deliver to the people on all fronts and would be wiped out of J&K whenever assembly elections take place here.
He said Congress will create awareness among the general public about the failures of the government and the drawbacks of not having the status of being a state.
He said that Jammu has witnessed huge setbacks due to the revocation of statehood by the BJP Government including the seizing of jobs, land, and the suppression of political and civil rights. The economy has also suffered immensely due to the government’s irrational policies and decisions. Therefore, it is high time that the Centre keeps its promise of giving back statehood so that people can exercise their political rights by choosing a democratic government.
The Centre should accept the demand for restoration of statehood to J-K in the interest of the Constitution and democracy, he stated.
Launching a scathing attack on the government, Bhalla further added that without a dedicated government elected by the people Jammu and its people are being neglected and overlooked.
JKPCC Working President said that Congress has been on fore front to oppose the anti- people policies being imposed on the people through back door by the bureaucrats Govt, as there is no elected Govt in J&K for three and half years, now the people of different sections are being forced to swallow the bitter pills, as they have no representation or forum to raise their voice against the anti people policies of the BJP through bureaucratic system. Having failed to give employment to highest number of percentage of educated unemployed youth, the Centre Govt and UT administration is beating about bushes and finding faults in the past Govts,he added.
He said that Congress is the only option left before the people of Jammu and Kashmir as people have bitter experience of Double Engine Govt of BJP’.