Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 18: Former minister and senior National Conference leader Ajay Kumar Sadhotra today lashed out at the BJP for delaying elections to Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, saying that the saffron party was scared of facing people due to its wrong policies, primarily downgrading the state into a Union Territory.
“On the face of stiff resistance by the people and their alienation in the wake of 2019 political developments, the BJP is in a state of quandary due to imminent defeat and therefore, it has been depriving the electors their right to choose their own government”, Sadhotra said while addressing public meeting at Thathar in Jammu North Assembly Constituency.
He said the hollow promises made by the BJP to justify its 2019 actions have fallen flat, as the state has not only lost its identity but the people stand deprived of development, economic dividends and particularly the employment to educated unemployed besides skilled and unskilled workforce. He said Jammu and Kashmir is reeling under high degree of inflation, with prices of essentials skyrocketing and development taking a huge dip over the years. The people are running helter-skelter for seeking redressal to their grievances with power and drinking water supply remaining a major irritant.
Sadhotra said that Jammu and Kashmir seems to be the last and the least priority for the Centre, which has pushed it to morass. What could be the extreme of lackadaisical attitude than that the Lieutenant Governor is being assisted by just one Advisor, he asked, saying the state is being virtually run by the bureaucrats. The people have no access to the government to register their grievances, he said, adding that bureaucratic dispensation is always detrimental to public interest. He exhorted the NC workers to intensify their mass outreach programme and identify the problems of the people.
Ram Pal, former minister and Zonal president Jammu- Kathua districts said that it is the need of the hour to strengthen secularism in the Country especially in Jammu and Kashmir. He said Mahatma Gandhi has seen a ray of light from J&K in 1947. That light needs to be taken to every nook and corner of the country.
Prominent among those present on the occasion are Laxmi Dutta, Haji Bagh Ali, Ghar Singh, Chander Mohan Sharma, Th Raghbir Singh Manhas and others.
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