Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 13: Charging the Government with failure to come up to the expectations of the people even with respect to provision of basic amenities, like potable drinking water and power, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman AAP J&K and former Minister, alleged that the BJP regime was indulging in false rhetoric and misleading campaigns only to conceal its failures.
This was claimed by the AAP leader while addressing a series of meetings in Kossar, Choka Nala villages of Chenani Assembly constituency, here today.
Pointing towards the frequent statements and tweets of the central BJP leaders and its Ministers regarding 100 percent electrification and water supply, Singh said that such utterances had only evoked cynicism amongst the masses and exposed the saffron leaders for their politics of deceit and subterfuge.
Harsh Dev said that during his successive tours of various remote and far-off villages of Chenani and Ramnagar constituencies, he had personally observed and experienced the problems of water and power in the said areas. “Not only the schools were facing acute water supply problems but the village people were collecting rain-water in their utensils to quench their thirst. And despite repeated representations none had bothered to address the plight of the aggrieved people. Similarly several villages had been shown to have been covered under Tap water supply scheme without anything tangible appearing on the ground,” he said.
In the same way, added Singh, dozens of households in almost all of villages in the said constituencies had been left out of the electrification scheme and deprived of the benefits of the same despite loud sloganeering by the Govt. “In several cases, the electrification had been reduced to a mere formality with hardly any benefit having accrued to the people due to extremely low voltage. Further, there were cases where power tariff bills were being sent to households which had not been electrified at all. Unscheduled and frequent power cuts have further created massive resentment amongst the people with an apathetic regime averse to their woes and sufferings,” he said.
Castigating the BJP Govt for its false narrative and deceptive propaganda, Singh called upon the Lt Governor to ensure provision of basic amenities to people of UT on priority.
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