Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 5: Lambasting the BJP for its flip-flop over the issue of domicile law for J&K, Harshdev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister today said that highly incongruous and contradictory statements made by the saffron party leadership had created huge embitterment in the hearts and minds of the people especially the youth.
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“BJP leadership is taking one stand while addressing the public gatherings but issuing exactly opposite statements during the course of Parliamentary proceedings,” he said while referring to the reply of G Kishan Reddy in Parliament yesterday in response to a question by MP Natrajan, wherein the Union MoS Home had categorically stated that `as on date, the Government has not taken any decision regarding domicile law in J&K’.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu today, Harshdev Singh said that the statement of the Union MoS denying any such proposal for domicile law in J&K had exposed the BJP leadership yet again for its treacherous politics. “The cat which had been mewing for long has been finally let out of the bag by no other than the BJP Government itself. The Parliament reply has falsified the lofty claims made by BJP leaders that a Domicile law was in the offing and that Home Ministry was shortly issuing a notification in this regard,” he said.
Accusing the BJP leadership of skullduggery and deceptive politics, Harshdev Singh cautioned the saffron party to refrain from taking the people of J&K for granted. “Double standards of BJP leadership have come to fore on several occasions in its dealing with J&K affairs. It has been promising early delimitation for quite some time without actually committing itself to it. It has often been talking of holding Assembly elections in the erstwhile State and subsequently retracting from its statements. It has been assuring of extending the provisions of 73rd and 74th Amendment of the constitution to J&K without taking any initiative in this regard. And it has been harping on ending bias against Jammu while at the same time announcing mega freebies and doles for Kashmir. It’s, in fact, moving in fits and starts, accompanied by reverses which could prove counterproductive aspiration”, he said.
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