Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 16: J&K Congress unit vice president and former minister Raman Bhalla today claimed that Jammu region has suffered unprecedented bias and prejudice under present BJP regime and robbing the Dogra land of is due and legitimate share its multifarious sectors and observed that Union Govt should not delay in restoring Statehood to J&K.
While interacting with aggrieved people of Nai Basti, Ashok Nagar area of Gandhi Nagar constituency here today, Bhalla said that history bore testimony to the fact that Jammu region had all along remained neglected in various spheres including employment, development. He said that most distressing was the fact that incumbent Government gave persistent shocks to Jammuites by their ignominious surrenders on all Jammu related issues under the smoke screen of national interest. And all this notwithstanding the fact that BJP had proclaimed themselves as champions of Jammu cause, he lamented.
Appealing the youth and students to strengthen Congress, the lone political voice of Jammu region, for the honour and justice to Dogra land, Bhalla said that the ultimate solution lay only in addressing burning issues of people of J&K.
With the baggage of mistrust carried by BJP have become murkier and cumbersome, the people of Jammu were impatiently waiting for the early announcement of Assembly polls in J&K to reply those who betrayed their collective sentiments. Not only were the people of the region cheated by the BJP over the false promises made by it but were extremely antagonized over the complete disregard for their honour and pride which the Dogras valued more than their lives. The people of Jammu had got the shocker of their lifetimes by the most cowardly conduct of BJP and the gutless posturing of its leaders with regards to sentiments and aspirations of people, he added.
Accusing the BJP of having made unwholesome compromises by it for power sake, Bhalla said that Jammu’s deprivation regretfully continued even after making blunders in J&K claiming that their decisions will revolutionized lives of people of J&K thereby belying the tall claims of the central and state leadership of BJP.
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