Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 9: With peoples’ faith having been completely shattered in the present dispensation, JKNPP chairman and former minister said that if Jammu region faced an existential threat today, it was from BJP than anybody else.
Addressing public meetings in Ward No. 4, 8 and 32 here today. Singh said that BJP’s double standards, its lust for power and vested interests of its opportunist leaders posed the gravest threat the very identity and culture of Dogras besides their survival as a class. He said that having reposed their faith in BJP and given it a massive mandate, the people of Jammu were the most dis-appointed lot today.
The BJP which used to shed a monsoon of tears everywhere for Jammu’s empowerment had given the deadliest blow to the cause of Dogra land by surrendering over all its election time promises. “BJP’s rule would go down as the gloomiest phase in the history of Jammu. Its surrenders would continue to haunt the posterity. No matter we live or die”, Harsh Dev said.
He said prior to elections the BJP and its leaders would nail anyone and everyone for not doing enough for Jammu but had shocked their electorates after elections by their consecutive somersaults and lame duck approach. While the issue of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis had created an alarm in entire Jammu region, the BJP leaders made statements of evicting them umpteen times for public consumption only without any follow up action during the last over three years, he lamented.
The withdrawal of minutes pertaining to tribal settlements also met the same fate. The share of Jammu region in services had been marginalized. And contrarily the BJP was fully endorsing the separatist agenda of Kashmir centric forces by having declined CBI probe in Rasana case, by its endorsement of the polices for stone-pelters, separatists and militants and its acquiescence to the decisions to shelve Sainik Colonies and KP Township Project in Kashmir.
He regretted that the then DyCM Nirmal Singh had even gone to the extent of saying that dreaded terrorist Burhan Wani would not have been killed, had the Govt known about his presence in the hide out busted by security forces. Accusing the BJP of having sold the mandate of Jammu for power, Singh said that the major threat to Jammu’s survival as an entity and to its identity was from the opportunist BJP which could go to any extent to remain glued to the seat of power.
Rajinder Gupta, K S Slathia, Manju Singh, Rajiv Mahajan, Krishma Rajput and Gagan Partap also spoke on the occasion.
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