BJP-PDP Govt non-serious towards public issues: Bhalla

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 25: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today termed the poor coordination between coalition partners as main source of public disenchantment and cause of governance deficit, saying the overall situation in the State has almost reached to a point of no return.
“The PDP-BJP Government has abandoned its responsibility towards people, which is manifesting in complete lawlessness, administrative inertia and developmental paralysis across the State,” former Minister said while interacting with the shopkeepers of Gole Market  in Gandhi Nagar Assembly Constituency today.
Bhalla expressed concern over silence of the Centre and said Jammu and Kashmir appears to be the last priority for it. He said the past two-and-a-half years have exposed the BJP, which did not only betrayed people of Jammu but also contributed in the neglect of Jammu. BJP’s track record of maiden governance has been dismal and the only priority for the beneficiaries of Jammu mandate is how to remain glued to power.
Cong leader said that middle class people work really hard to take care of children’s education, livelihood in the times of sickness and even old age. And the  price rise is really making it quite impossible to accommodate day to day expenses. Maintaining that a majority of students in J&K still depend on Government schools, State Govt has failed working towards safeguarding the right to education of an average student.
He urged the people of Jammu province to analyse if they committed a grave blunder by voting for the anti-Jammu BJP.  He  said since the BJP had miserably failed to live up to the people’s expectations by  surrendering all the Jammu based issues for the sake of power, the people from Jammu were giving overwhelming response to the policies of Congress Party.
While flaying the BJP’s policy of deceit, duplicity and double standards, Bhalla cautioned the people not to get trapped again by the rhetoric and tall pronouncements of  that party and exhorted them to support Congress.