Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 24: The working president of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) and former Minister Raman Bhalla has alleged that militancy in Rajouri and Poonch is the gift of BJP controlled administration in the Jammu and Kashmir.
Interacting with the people at Nanak Nagar here today Bhalla expressed anguish over repeated terror attacks in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir. He said BJP-controlled administration has failed to contain militancy in J&K. Bhalla said three days after a dreaded terror attack in Dera Ki Gali on the border of Poonch and Rajouri districts in which five soldiers lost their lives in the line of duty, a retired Superintendent of Police was shot dead by militants in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
“Poonch, Rajouri, and Baramulla were free from militancy but now militancy has slowly gripped these peaceful areas”, Bhalla regretted and added that militants are being struck in Poonch and Rajouri districts after repeated intervals.
Recalling the twin militant attacks on January 1 and January 2 in Dangri village of Rajouri district, Bhalla said that almost a year has passed but the administration has failed to track down terrorists involved in executing the attack.
Bhalla said that apart from political uncertainty, Jammu and Kashmir is also suffering from a governance crisis for the past eight years and pointed toward the failure of the present regime on all fronts.
Pointing toward the failure of the present regime to conduct Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), Bhalla said that this regime has shamelessly bulldozed the system of governance and eroded the sanctity of democratic institutions just to enjoy power. “Tenure of this regime would be remembered as a period when all the democratic institutions were shamelessly bulldozed by the ruling elites just to enjoy absolute power”, he added.
While reiterating the demand to restore statehood, Bhalla assured that Congress will ensure rights to jobs and land for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The Government has agreed to hold elections and restore statehood as well. We want the Government to guarantee the exclusive right to jobs and land to the locals in the statehood”, he asserted.
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