![BJP nominee for Jammu North Assembly segment, Sham Lal Sharma with his supporters at Kot Bhalwal, Jammu. BJP nominee for Jammu North Assembly segment, Sham Lal Sharma with his supporters at Kot Bhalwal, Jammu.](https://cdndailyexcelsior.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/page5-6-5-696x464.jpg)
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: Senior BJP leader and party nominee for Jammu North Assembly segment, Sham Lal Sharma while making a sharp attack on the Congress Party today questioned its criminal silence to support the politics of pushing Jammu Kashmir’s economy back into corruption and handing it over to selected anti-nation and pro-Pak leaders.
Sham Lal asked “whether Congress party supports the so-called agenda of National Conference (NC) for discrimination between Jammu and the Kashmir Valley” adding that Jammu remained like slave of Kashmir polity, wore the brunt of neglect in every field and treated the people of Jammu as second class citizens. He said Kashmiri leadership deliberately neglected the Jammu region for their political gains for decades during their rule, ruined the rich Dogra culture and heritage.
Addressing a largely attended public meeting at Kot Bhalwal in Jammu North constituency here today, Sham dismayed on the top leadership of Congress Party, including Rahul Gandhi and Malikarjun Kharge and said that in the lust of power, the Party has not only compromised its basic ideologies, but has become direction-less and compelled to align with the pro-Pak and anti-India forces like NC, Aam Aadmi Party and other alike parties in the country.
He reminded that NC is solely responsible for militancy and backlash in Kashmir resulting in death of thousands of innocent people, including security forces.”Now, when the peace is prevailing gradually in J&K, both these parties are again trying to bring back the gun culture and promoting the pro-Pak and anti-national forces,” he maintained.
Sham Lal said the people will give befitting reply to these parties in the on-going Assembly election and elect the BJP with absolute majority to carry out the agenda of peace, and holistic development of J&K.
Meanwhile, in a significant development, a senior Congress leader, former Sarpanch and Congress party Block President Bhalwal, Rajdev Singh Jamwal today joined the BJP along with hundreds of his supporters.