Excelsior Correspondent
BILLAWAR, Apr 10: Skyrocketing inflation, hike in power tariff, ‘killer’ taxes, insensitive attitude towards people’s problems are the gifts and achievements of the BJP Government, former minister Dr Manohar Lal Sharma said at Billawar today.
Addressing the meeting, Dr Manohar raised the issue of unprecedented hike in the prices of essential commodities including vegetables, edible oil, LPG, petrol, diesel, etc. He said that instead of creating new jobs as was promised, the Government even failed to ensure the livelihood of poor people as hundreds have lost employability avenues due to mismanagement by the government. He said BJP leadership in J&K never get tired of trumpeting about their success, but it is also a fact that the highest rate of unemployment is in J&K.
Dr Manohar accused the BJP Government of being apathetic towards common masses as during such a time when people don’t have money to buy vegetables and grains, it has revised power tariff considerably worsening the situation of masses, as if it is taking revenge from them for giving votes to the party. He also cited the 5 percent raise in the GST on essential commodities at a time when per capita income is dwindling day by day and making new records.
He said that despite knowing the fact that Indian economy’s backbone is farming sector, J&K is showing no concern in safeguarding the interests of farmers. He demanded that the government should immediately depute special teams to assess the damages of wheat crop and compensate the affected farmers as the responsibility of devastation of crops lies with the government which failed earlier also in timely compensating farming community.
He alleged that Back to Village programme of the government has turned out to be a futile exercise and an avoidable wasteful expenditure. He said that BJP has let loose a reign of terror from tax terrorism to all sorts of other anti-poor, anti-farmers, anti-youth and anti-trade policies besides looting the local resources after the arbitrary downgrading of historic Dogra State of J&K.
Prominent among those present on the occasion include Dr Narinder Vaid, Sham Spolia, Romal Singh, Jagmohan Gupta, Romesh Bhagat, BashirAhmed, Capt Hans Raj, Ex- Capt Mohan Singh Biloria, Tek Chand, Ex- Capt Bansi Lal, Vipul Sharma, Nishant Sharma and others.
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