*Govt employees forced to attend rally
Excelsior Correspondent
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JAMMU, Feb 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dismayed all people of Jammu and Kashmir during his visit here today by not uttering a word about the restoration of statehood and much delayed Assembly elections besides not mentioning about other promises and hopes given to the different categories of youth, 10 years ago.
Reacting to the PM speach, JKPCC said that he didn’t refer to the early restoration of statehood, democracy and protection of jobs and lands, the popular demand of people of J&K.
Modi also avoided to mention his earlier promises and hopes given to the people and youth of different categories like large scale unemployed and thousands of daily wagers, need based and other contractual and temporary employees besides refugees and Kashmir Pandits had high hopes which were shattered.
“Even though today’s rally was attended by the large no of Government employees and field functionaries, who were made to attend from far flung areas by boarding transport early in the morning to make the rally a success but it was no way near to 2013 Lalkar rally of party, which showed lack of enthusiasm amongst people “, said Media incharge of the JKPCC Ravinder Sharma.
Unemployment is at its peak, the resentment over Agniveer scheme, failure of adequate jobs were burning issues but Prime Minister showed attention. He didn’t referred to the dreams of Metro Cities, Smart Cities besides the vital Railway project to Rajouri-Poonch.
The rise in terrorism in several areas and martyrdom of several senior officers and jawans and continued mischief by Pakistan and China with our borders also didn’t invite a strong reply by the Prime Minister, Sharma asserted.
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