Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 25: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) president and MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia has criticized major coalition partner Congress for its double speak on important issues concerning common masses of the State.
He said that Congress is trying to hoodwink the public opinion by holding protests on various issues including 73rd and 74th Amendment in Panchayati Raj Act, supporting Autonomy for J&K in the Cabinet Committee while opposing it in public.
Addressing a press conference here today, Balwant Singh Mankotia lambasted Congress for its double speaks on all the issues concerning the welfare of people of the State. He said that a high level delegation of Pradesh Congress Committee led by its president, Prof Saifuddin Soz met All India Congress president, Sonia Gandhi and raised the issue of West Pakistani refugees while its own Government and ministers in the State are mum on the recommendations of Wadhwa Committee report.
“The delegation nowhere mentioned the issue of 73rd and 74th amendment in the Panchayati Raj Act in a meeting of such significance”, said Mankotia. The party is trying to mislead the people by holding protests and managing lathicharge through its own instruments to gain sympathy of the common masses while doing nothing practical for the well being of people, he added.
He held responsible Congress party for all the sufferings of Jammu as well as Kashmir region, rising prices, corruption and all the major scams in the country.
The NPP MLA urged the people to defeat the nefarious designs of anti-Jammu and anti-people Congress party.
Those present on the occasion were Ex-MLA Faquir Nath, provincial president, S Daljit Singh, Anita Thakur and Shakti Gupta.
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