Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 31: Accusing the BJP of resorting to unfair practices to mobilize public gathering at PM’s rally in Udhampur on April 2, a large number of Panthers Party activists spearheaded by senior leaders Harsh Dev Singh, Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal staged a protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here against the State Government alleging abuse of authority and position to make the rally look successful.
While speaking to media, Harsh Dev Singh said that the BJP seemed desperate for giving artificial splendor to the PM’s rally by hook or by crook and resorting to coercive use of politico-administrative machinery for drawing the people en mass to the venue. Criticising State Govt on its bizarre move, Singh said that the sinister alliance had issued written orders to the Government officials of various departments and RDD in particular to arrange the transportation for ferrying the people from remote areas to the rally.
He divulged that the directives of the orders clearly deployed employees against their pick up points to bring the people in the vehicles with described capacity (persons) to ensure the presence of maximum audience during the rally. Displaying the copies of official orders to the media, Singh said that the engaged employees including the GRS, VLWs, Technical Assistants were forced through written orders issued by their respective officers at the behest of BJP to draw the people out from their homes to attend PM Narendra Modi’s rally.
While flying the BJP-PDP combine for misusing the public exchequer for political gains, he said that crores of rupees were being squandered in mobilizing the public gathering at the rally by coercive means which amounted to corrupt practice. Singh regretted that while the State Government’s coffers remained dry for the casual, daily rated workers, martyrs, farmers, border residents; they were lavishly thrown open for transporting and plying the people in quantum from far flung areas to the venue of the rally.
Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal said that the BJP had been playing dangerously with the sentiments of the people and the politics of coercion besides its brazen abuse of power had confirmed that it could cross all the limits for the loaves of power. He said that the Saffron Party using the government employees to fetch people for the PM’s rally shall not augur well with the event and would only be perceived as unethical and disreputable by all.
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