Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 5: Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today expressed strong resentment over the anti-youth policies of the BJP Government towards Jammu and Kashmir.
Bhalla termed the policies of BJP Govt towards the youth of J&K as unsympathetic who are facing the brunt of militancy, disturbed conditions and various kinds of difficult situations like internet blockage during the ongoing turmoil, for last three decades. This was observed by former minister while interacting with prominent persons of Ekta Vihar, Gangyal.
Bhalla maintained that the youth friendly policies of Congress led UPA and other previous Governments are being discontinued at this crucial juncture when the situation is quite disturbed and the academic atmosphere is vitiated and youth & students are even deprived of internet facilities. On one hand the |Government is not able to restore internet due to disturbed conditions, while on the other BJP Govt is withdrawing the existing concessions and facilities to the youth of J&K to compete for jobs, which is unfortunate.
He said that Govt had promised 50,000 Govt jobs besides creating lot of job opportunities post abrogation of Special Status but the youth and students feel deceived and betrayed. Every action of the Centre Govt is costing the educated youth of J&K quite heavily and there are no jobs for them in Govt or private sectors.
Bhalla also questioned the BJP’s betrayal & false promises to the various kinds of daily rated & need basis workers and temporary, adhoc and contractual youth in Govt jobs besides its failure to revoke the SRO 202 completely, which is totally anti-youth and newly recruited employees. He expressed his resentment over the promises to the different category of reserved sections like OBC, SC, ST who were promised better deal and parity in reservations like rest of the country, post abrogation of Article 370.
He warned that the youth and students would continue to protest against the wrong policies of the Govt, to force the Centre Govt and UT administration to redress their genuine grievances. It appears that BJP is taking the people especially youth of Jammu and Kashmir for granted but the people and youth shall not forgive the BJP for its anti- youth approach, he added.
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