JKPCC team barred to meet jailed YRS leaders
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 23: JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla, former Minister, Yogesh Sawhney, Manmohan Singh and District president Kathua Pankaj Dogra today visited Kathua District Jail to meet arrested YRS leaders while peacefully protesting for abolition of Sarore toll Plaza.
Congress leaders led by Bhalla were not allowed to meet arrested YRS activists prompting them to protest outside Jail. Prominent among those present on the occasion include Arvinder Pal Singh, Paramjit Singh, SP Bhandari, Narinder Sharma, Pawan Sharma, Block presidents Subash Chander, Vishu Andotra, Chairman, Rajnish Basotra, Jaswant Singh Kaka, Arun Mehta, Avinay Kumar besides others.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that BJP is facing unprecedented public resentment across J&K for its alleged anti- people policies but consistently remains in denial mode to address public issues on priority. He attacked BJP for its anti-poor, anti-middle class policies. He said “the ruling dispensation has not been able to live up to its promises of providing employment to youth, handholding of artisans and much awaited relief to the poor and downtrodden sections of society”.
To cover up their failures further, BJP is shying away from elections as the clouds of worry have surrounded them. Life and livelihood of those living on the edge of poverty is not changing for the better”, he said and added “amidst untamed inflation and unemployment, the withdrawal of food schemes only added to the daily woes of people”.
Bhalla said “how will BJP face people from whose plates it has snatched food? How can a government that has unleashed tax terrorism on people face them? Our middle class, BPL and other marginalized communities are particularly at the receiving end”, he added.
He alleged that J&K has witnessed huge setbacks due to the revocation of statehood by the BJP government including seizing of jobs, land, and the suppression of political and civil rights. He also castigated the Centre for remaining busy in rhetoric rather than doing work on ground. He said that the situation on ground zero in J&K is contrary to the claims of the BJP leadership over colossal development and lasting peace.
Sawhney said that the BJP has pushed the Jammu and Kashmir into unprecedented political uncertainty by indulging in politics of hate. BJP ever since getting access to power in Delhi had been on a rampage of dispossessing and disempowering common people of Jammu and Kashmir. It’s not about a particular community or a sect, they have went berserk against all of us collectively.
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