Jammu people tired of hollow slogans of BJP: Rana

NC leader and MLA Nagrota, Devender Singh Rana addressing public meeting at Manwal on Sunday.
NC leader and MLA Nagrota, Devender Singh Rana addressing public meeting at Manwal on Sunday.

Excelsior Correspondent
KATHAR/MANWAL, Oct 9: National Conference Provincial president Devender Singh Rana  has assailed the BJP for utterly failing in deliverance, saying the party has lost confidence and mandate of the people of Jammu.
“The 2014 euphoria, expectations and fanfare is terribly missing with disdain growing among people due to policy paralysis of the BJP partnered Government in Jammu and Kashmir, which is struggling to put its act together after plunging the state into unprecedented political and administrative crisis.”  Rana said while addressing workers at Kathar in Nagrota Assembly Constituency this evening.
The Provincial president said the people of Jammu are feeling let down and betrayed, as their problems are accumulating with each passing day.
He said the arrogance of power and lack of governance has distanced the BJP from its core constituency, which is hugely realizing the mistake of putting a bunch of agitators into the cradle of administrators.
“For over six decades, the BJP had been exploiting the Jammu sentiment by crying hoarse over the so-called discrimination, deprivation and neglect but when it came to delivering, they just raised their hands”, he said, adding that not only the BJP pushed the region to backwards but also turned out as a big obstacle in its development and progress.
He referred to erratic power and water supply, dilapidated condition of main and interior roads, scarcity of rations, deplorable hygienic conditions and fast crumbling administrative apparatus. He referred to protests and strikes of daily rated workers on regular basis and said that while a huge chunk of these people are taking to streets, the general public is suffering on account of utility services.
Rana reminded the BJP of its promises with the people of Jammu in general and the border areas in particular, asking as to what had happened to safe shelters and bunkers which they had claimed would be coming up within months of their Government.
“Together with the support and guidance of the sagacious people of Nagrota constituency, we will achieve the dream of making it a shinning outskirts of Greater Jammu”, Rana asserted.