Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: Accusing the BJP of cheating the people with its fictional accounts of achievements and holding celebrations from August 5, the day the J&K State was downgraded as UT, chairman JKNPP and former minister Harsh dev Singh said that Saffron Party’s conduct only amounted to rubbing salt on the wounds of Jammu people and nothing else.
“While Jammu region continued to bleed and boil, the BJP chose to hold festivities. The obnoxious `cock-a-hoop’ would further antagonize the general masses of the region who were already feeling let down and betrayed, Harsh Dev said addressing a press conference here.
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Singh said that with raging fires having engulfed almost the entire political constituency of BJP, the celebrations by BJP would come as a ‘bludgeoning jolt’ for the Jammuites. He expressed anguish over the political mutilation of the erstwhile J&K State. He said the shocking event of Aug 5 left the people stunned and confused when the Statehood of 200 years old historical Dogra territory was snatched and they were forced to usher into the political territory controlled by the Central Government.
Lambasting BJP Govt for its foxy move, Harsh divulged that immediately after the political demotion of the erstwhile State, the Govt resorted to the policy of suppression by stalling the high speed mobile internet services. This trend is still prevalent as the telecom companies are charging the people for 4G services against the actual 2G services provided to them”, Singh added.
Referring to the state of affairs post August 5, Singh said that the youth, farmers, border dwellers, traders and businessmen etc continued to suffer. The unemployed youth were given false promises of jobs to fill up one lakh vacancies. The notifications for the posts advertized earlier were withdrawn and the selection process of several posts in J&K Bank were scrapped. The farmers of Jammu region till now are not paid a single penny as compensation for their perished crops. The life of people living on borders has been thrown out of gear with no one paying heed to their plight. The students and the traders are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 epidemic in absence of the regular classes and normal business activity, Harsh lamented.
Alleging that deprivation of Jammu region remained unabated even after abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A, Singh said that the projects including Artificial Tawi Lake, Mubarak Mandi Heritage Project, Cable Car Project to Bahu and Mohmaya temple, Smart City, AIIMS all appeared to have been abandoned. And the only achievement of the BJP led Government appeared to be the installation of multiple Toll Plazas.
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