People rejected politics of money, muscle power: NPP

NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh addressing public meeting in Ramnagar area on Monday.
NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh addressing public meeting in Ramnagar area on Monday.

Excelsior Correspondent

RAMNAGAR, Dec 17: Describing the BJP’s defeat in the recent polls in five states as a referendum over the BJP’s 4½ year rule, NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh has complimented the electorates of these states for their refusal to succumb to politics of money and muscle power and riveting rhetoric.
Referring to the clean sweep by the regional parties including TRS and MNF in Telangana and Mizoram as emerging confidence of people in local parties, he said that a highly impudent and self flattered BJP with its inflated ego must realize that people of the country can no longer be swayed by deceptive slogans and false promises. He said that gigantic emergence of regional parties assumes greater significance especially in a situation where in the ruling BJP Govt had thrown all its might with PM Narendra Modi along with dozens of Chief Ministers, Union Ministers, hundreds of MPs and thousands of RSS workers from all across the country campaigning for the saffron party with the corporate sector and huge resources at its command.
Addressing public meetings at Dalsar and Bhatyari in Ramnagar, Singh said that the results are an eye opener for highly ascendant BJP which had been largely intoxicated with power and solely guided by the agenda of capturing power at the cost of its own manifesto and public pronouncements. He said the Telangana and Mizoram elections in particular is a moment of redefining of Indian politics and re-inventing of democracy wherein the regional parties have come in prominence in the state elections.
Calling upon the people to take cue from the recent elections, Harsh Dev said that with Modi’s wax masculine image fast melting, it was the regional parties alone that could meet the public expectations at the local level. He said that JKNPP had proved time and again that it alone could navigate the people of Jammu region who stood cheated and betrayed by the BJP.
Harsh Dev expressed grave concern over the dilapidated conditions of roads. He called for early repairs of damaged transformers and restoration of water supply particularly in Kaghote, Kathil Ganju and Bhatyari Panchayats. He referred to the acute deficiency of staff in schools and health centres of the constituency.