Excelsior Correspondent
RAMNAGAR, June 23: Reacting sharply to the statement of JKNPP leader on AIIMS, MLA Ramnagar R S Pathania has challenged his predecessor to come on ground and try to call the spade a spade.
“The stand of BJP is very clear and all the BJP legislators had voiced unanimity for setting up of AIIMS at Jammu in the last budget session. And now when BJP has vowed to formally announce and start work on setting up of AIIMS before 20th July, Panthers want to muddle the public opinion by issuing vague and out-of-context statements,” the MLA said in a statement.
Attributing to Panthers leader’s statement as an outburst of frustration and eccentricity resulting out of his nerve-racking defeat in the last Assembly polls, Mr Pathania accused the former MLA of sticking to novel obsession of making false, tailored and blasphemous statements. “Nonetheless, the statement whereinby he admits that Sushma Swaraj had sanctioned 120 crores for AIIMS in 2004, itself vindicates the BJP stand that AIIMS for Jammu was a gift of Vajpayee Government,” he added.
Mr Pathania also pointed out that the former MLA could not skip his responsibility as a Cabinet Minister in then Government, which frittered away on the issue despite Sushma Swaraj’s announcement of AIIMS in Jammu.
Reiterating the BJP stand, Mr Pathania said that AIIMS in Jammu is the result of a long-drawn struggle by the party and fringe-elements and opportunistic Panthers cannot steal the credit for the same by their out-of-sync antics and tried n’ rejected theories. “Rather the wishy n’ wily Panthers who had been enjoying loaves and fishes of power since the last eighteen years owe an answer to the people that what efforts did they take for establishment of AIIMS at Jammu,” he asked.
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