Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: Senior Congress leader and former Minister Raman Bhalla today asked BJP to come clean on its role in undermining the interests of the State, Jammu region in particular, during its 10-month-long rule in alliance with PDP.
Addressing a large public meeting at Jagrian today, Mr Bhalla posed a query to BJP leaders asking them as to what happened to their promises of extensive development and pursuance of their core agenda as they were in power for 10 months. “I don’t see even a single promise getting translated on the ground”, Bhalla said.
“The situation has come to such a pass that the people are feeling cheated. They are frustrated the way their rightful place has been smothered by the power-hungry policies of the BJP leaders,” Mr Bhalla, who is face of Congress in Jammu city said.
It hardly matters whether BJP will again form the government by prostrating before PDP, if there is no development. Their ten months have been disastrous and the people have no patience to bear more atrocities of the anti-Jammu BJP.”
Bhalla, a Minister in the first Mufti Sayeed Government and that of Omar Abdullah, has come out in open after the first time asking the BJP–PDP to tell what are their achievements. “There is not even a remote glimpse of the development which they had promised. Instead, the people of Jammu are feeling let down. They are starving because there are no food grains at the ration depots, the power and water supply have become a dream”, he said, and asked, “Is this your ( BJP) vision of development of Jammu region.
The public meeting was attended by several Sarpanches, Panchs and residents drawn from various places, which set the tone for the anti-BJP campaign in Jammu. Sarpanchs, Shamsher Singh and Kashmira Singh, block president Vijay Sharma, Naib Sarpach Satnam Singh Keka , ex-corporator Satish Sharma were the prominent among those who attended the public meeting.
Bhalla recalled the Congress rule when the State witnessed huge development and created job opportunities, took special care of people and provided them all the basic facilities and helped farmers to live a life of dignity.
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