Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Dec 29: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive Member & J&K chief spokesperson Dr Jitendra Singh today said, BJP is the only major political party in the country, which is truly secular because it not only gives equal respect to all religions but also practices this virtue in its policies and programmes through the principle of “justice to all, appeasement to none”.
Addressing a public meeting at Bakal-Artayan, near here today comprising a large number of Muslim population drawn from surrounding areas Dr Jitendra Singh said, unlike the Congress Party, BJP does not wear “secularism’ on its sleeves and flaunt it for political opportunism. While the BJP is often, though wrongly, blamed by its detractors for Gujarat riots, the facts bear out that most of the communal riots since independence have taken place when the Congress Party was in power at the Center, he added.
Citing the past evidence, Dr Jitendra Singh accused the Congress of resorting to tactics of Hindu-Muslim divide or Hindu-Sikh divide for vote bank politics while in J&K, it colluded with Kashmir-centric regional parties to create polarization through appeasement of separatists. Kishtwar is the most recent example of the dangerous communal agenda followed by these pseudo- secular parties, he added.
If voted to power, Dr Jitendra Singh said, BJP will strive to liberate Udhampur region from continued neglect suffered by it. Rising above all other considerations, he appealed to the people to vote for a corruption-free regime to get rid of the scams and misgovernance which have been the hallmark of Congress led UPA at Center and Congress-National Conference coalition in the State.
Pawan Gupta, senior BJP leader and Member of the party’s State Election Committee, recounted the acts of ommission and commission by the sitting MLA of Udhampur as a result of which all the development activity had come to a stand still. He said, if BJP is voted in the next Assembly election from Udhampur, people will themselves see the difference within months.
Among prominent local leaders including Sarpanchs and Panchs who addressed the rally were Raj Mohammad Chandel, Shabeer Ahmed, Ali Mohd, Neeno Begum, Raj Kumar Bucha,Sada Begum, Sheema Begum,Maqsood Beg, Jeevan Sharma, Nazir Mohd, Sanjay Kumar, Raja Hanif Mohd Isaar, Sadique Mohd, Rohit Sethi, Neha Mahajan and several others.
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