Excelsior Correspondent
BILLAWAR, Nov 8: Aam Aadmi Party today held an impressive public rally at Mandli in Billawar, organized by Kathua unit of the party and addressed by senior AAP leaders.
Addressing the rally, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman AAP J&K State Co-ordination Committee, lambasted the BJP for giving J&K the most abhorable treatment ever in the history of the incarcerated state now reduced to a union territory.
“With the erstwhile historical State of J&K having been dismantled and downgraded to UT level and opening the lands and Jobs of its locals to outsiders, demolishing institutions, besides running the affairs of state for the last over four years through proxy rule of centre, the BJP regime appeared to be testing the patience of J&K people,” said Mr Singh.
He lamented that new laws were being enacted for J&K by ‘Babus’ in the Centre and implemented here without any Legislative nod. “The people have been subjected to the most unpopular rule of outside bureaucrats who lack even the basic knowledge of the problems of the common masses and have hardly any connect with the people while the ruling BJP continue to use J&K as a workshop holding newer experiments each day deliriously unmindful of the abyss to which it has thrown the people of the erstwhile State,” asserted the AAP leader .
Harsh Dev said people were suffering the worst nightmares due to the power and water crisis and unemployed educated youth were on the roads while the daily rated workers are without wages for several months with none to pay attention to their pathetic plight. “MGNREGA liability has exceeded one thousands crore during the last 5-6 years. The academic activity in remote village schools has been paralysed due to acute deficiency of teaching staff. The corruption has become all pervasive with none to question those indulging in open loot and plunder of the States’ resources,” he said and added that those who have the temerity to question are dubbed as anti-nationals and dissent was being muzzled through the coercive apparatus of the State.
Harsh Dev Singh said that under the prevailing circumstances, it was AAP alone which was emerging as a ray of hope for J&K people.
Yash Paul Kundal, former Minister and Chairman SC/ST Cell of AAP and others also addressed the rally, which was organized by District President Raj Kumar, Amar Nath Sangathan Mantri, Duni Chand, Bikrant Singh and Kartar Singh.
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