Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Claiming that BJP has deviated from its agenda and core issues, former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today said both the coalition partners have not honoured the mandate of the people of the State and have forgotten the governance.
Interacting with people of Chatha and Bhour Camp area of Gandhi Nagar constituency, Bhalla said that the people were finding themselves at the cross roads of history with lack of direction and will to govern compounding the grievances of common man many folds. He said that the hope of inclusive development and political reconciliation have been taken over by despair, as the unholy PDP-BJP alliance has failed to satiate the urges and aspirations of people.
He said the people are suffering as the present dispensation has not only abandoned the schemes initiated by the Congress led Government but also failed to take up new projects as per needs of the people. Referring to traumatic situation being faced by border dwellers due to intermittent ceasefire violations, Bhalla said the alarming security scenario calls for thaw between Indo-Pak relations.
Bhalla expressed concern over concerted attempts of the coalition partners to polarise situation in order to hide their failures on governance front. While development has been pushed to back burners, grievances of the people on account of scare rations, erratic power and drinking water supply and availability of minimum basics have added to their woes. He said that the previous Government had given Panchayats monitoring powers of 14 departments, but instead of making the institution more powerful, they have even snatched the powers from them.
Bhalla alleged that during elections BJP made promises of empowerment of Jammu, delimitation of Assembly constituencies, end of discrimination against Jammu, issuance of Dogra certificate to Jammu youth, grant of State Subject rights to West Pak Refuges, right to vote in Assembly elections and local bodies to WPRs, reservation of 5 seats for PoJK migrants and 3 seats for Kashmir migrants, 33 per cent reservation for women in Assembly, State Subject and Property Rights to children of daughters of J&K married outside, provision of 6 per cent vertical reservation to ex-serviceman and martyr’s families etc. but all the said slogans fell flat with hardly any initiative taken by BJP.
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