Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 27: National Conference additional general secretary and former Minister Ajay Sadhotra today strongly called upon the BJP to demonstrate its commitment to the people of Jammu and Kashmir by making an unequivocal and forceful plea to the Centre for the immediate restoration of full Statehood.
Interacting with a delegation from Basohli at party office here here this afternoon, Sadhotra said that the people of Jammu, who overwhelmingly supported the BJP in the Assembly elections, deserve more than just empty rhetoric – they deserve action.
Sadhotra said that if BJP truly respects the mandate it received, it must push for Statehood with the same urgency and determination that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah displayed when he got a resolution passed in the first session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on this issue. Statehood is not in favour but democratic and constitutional right of the people in this part of the country that used to be a biggest state under Maharaja Hari Singh.
“Anything less than a proactive approach from BJP leadership, particularly its National president J. P. Nadda, would expose their indifference toward the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir”, Sadhotra said while referring the BJP’s two-day intensive workshop, Prashikshan Shivir, for its MLAs ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly’s Budget Session.
Sadhotra said the restoration of Statehood for Jammu and Kashmir is not merely a political demand but an essential prerequisite to restoring the dignity and rights of the people. The current system of dual control has crippled governance, stalled development, and eroded accountability in the administration.
The people of J&K cannot afford to suffer further due to the BJP’s indecisiveness and politically motivated delays, he said adding that they have already suffered hugely during the misgovernance of the insensitive double engine government for over a decade.
He lambasted the BJP for its anti-people policies saying that the party’s duplicity promising one thing and doing another has deepened public resentment. Their failure to provide effective governance, ensure transparency, and address the concerns of the common people has left J&K in a state of uncertainty, he added.
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