Excelsior Correspondent
MAJALTA, Jan 12: Senior NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh today said that post re-organization era has witnesses a massive slow down in J&K with development taking a back seat and growing unemployment becoming more pronounced.
Addressing public meetings in Majalta area today Singh said dismantling of J&K state has adversely impacted the trade, tourism and economy of the erstwhile princely Dogra state of the country. There is an all-round dis-enchantment amongst the people who were caught unawares on August 5, 2019 when the BJP led Govt at the Centre all of a sudden announced re-organization of J&K and its division into two Union Territories, he added.
“While the economy fast dissipated and development came to a grinding halt, the ever growing unemployment seemed to be the only notable feature of the saffron rule. The past few years witnessed massive public uprisings against the anti Jammu and anti- people policies of the ruling dispensation which continued to be suppressed through iron fist of police and civil administration. Taking repeated somersaults on almost all its professed promises, the narcissistically pleased and power intoxicated BJP continued to use the coercive apparatus of state to silence all those who dared raise their voice for justice and sought fulfilment of promises made by it during elections,” Singh said.
Describing the BJP’s handling of dissent and disquiet as oppressively bizarre, undemocratic and morally sinister, Singh appealed to the workers not to succumb before the designs of the power hungry politicians. He said that NPP leadership shall stand with its people through thick and thin and continue to expose and oppose the BJP for its political debauchery and subterfuge.
Harsh Dev lambasted the BJP for having done the greatest disservice to J&K by demoting it to the level of UT. It has humiliated the Dogras by dismantling the oldest Dogra state. The extension of several draconian laws after abrogation of Art 370 including opening of lands and jobs to outsiders had in particular, come as a rude shocker for the people of J&K. The survival of small traders has been threatened by the proposed entry of corporates, business tycoons and big stores in the UT, he asserted.
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