Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Urging upon the people to gird up their loins for a decisive battle for restoration of honour and pride of Dogras, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today said that the time had come to give a befitting reply to those who had betrayed the trust of Jammu people.
Addressing public meeting at Karan Nagar in Jammu today, Singh said the BJP leadership having utterly failed to redeem any of its pre-poll promises with its electorates having further been cheated on a host of other issues by the said party, the disappointment of masses had reached its zenith with social, political organizations and civil society having virtually raised a banner of revolt. He said that failure of BJP to get Sept 23, the birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh declared as holiday had deeply hurt the sentiment of Dogras.
Singh said that besides its indifferent stance over the issue of Rohingya deportation, the BJP had failed to get the much publicized Rassana case transferred to CBI despite its own leaders having made public commitments in this regard. He said that failure to get the minutes of meeting related to Tribal affairs and settlement of nomads withdrawn, the BJP Ministers in the erstwhile regime had proved that their role was merely of pawns in the game of chess. They had failed to realise that they were only used by the Kashmir centric forces in furtherance of their idea of Greater Kashmir, Harsh Dev added.
Stressing the unity of various pro-Jammu forces, Mr Singh said that time was fast running out with Jammu losing economically and politically with each passing day. The very identity of Dogra was under threat in view of serious developments that had taken place in the past with attempts being made -to revive militancy even in Jammu region, he added. And with majority of Jammu people forced to migrate outside state and Dogra land being fastly occupied by non- Dogra speaking people, the crisis of identity and culture was fast deepening, cautioned Harsh Dev.
Appealing the people to support their own local party, Harsh Dev said that the Kashmir centric or national parties were not the solution to the woes of Jammu region.
Manju Singh, Gagan Pratap, Parshotam Parihar, Partap Singh, Krishma Rajput, KK Sharma, Vaishno Sharma and Shakti Singh also spoke on the occasion.
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