Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, June 13: Accusing the BJP of having ruined J&K in the name of reorganization, National Panthers Party (NPP) president and former minister Harsh Dev Singh led a massive protest, here today, raising slogans against the BJP Government at the Centre.
The protestors while wearing black bands and carrying black flags, raised slogans of “BJP Hai Hai”, “Central Minister Go Back”, “J&K Ke Sath, Experiment Karna Band Karo”, “Students Aur Youth Ka Shoshan Karna Band Karo” etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Harsh Dev said that central ministers were regularly visiting J&K and holding political rallies in the UT at the taxpayers’ expense without paying back anything to the erstwhile state. He said that crores of rupees had been spent on the sabbaticals of these central ministers by a cash starved UT like J&K without it receiving any special central grants from the visiting politicians.
He said that the J&K economy had plunged to an all time low with unemployment rate having beaten all records, and daily rated, casuals and contractual and even the MGNREGA workers without wages for months and years together.
Singh said that no visiting central minister was sure of restoration of statehood, or assembly elections in the near future. He said that the public exchequer of J&K was being used to fund their political tours and other incessant drum beating regarding their fictional achievements of nine years rule.
The JKNPP president said that the college aspiring students were the most disappointed lot in view of their examination centres, having been created outside the J&K UT, with the central ministers and UT administration keeping mum despite massive public uproar.
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