Excelsior Correspondent
RAMNAGAR, Jan 5: Urging upon the people to support and strengthen Panthers Party in its fight against differential and discriminatory treatment doled out to Jammu region, Harsh Dev Singh, chairman JKNPP and former Minister today said that a regional party alone could dispense justice to the hitherto deprived and incarcerated Dogra land.
While addressing a rally of Young Panthers in Ramnagar today, he said that a local party alone could address and redress the regional and local issues and aspirations of the people who had been cheated and betrayed umpteen times by national parties like BJP and Congress.
Harsh Dev Singh said that JKNPP having proved its mettle in the Assembly as well as outside and having proved its secular credentials deserved full support of the people of Jammu region. He said that it was Panthers Party alone which was vigorously agitating for the multifarious concerns of Jammu region and its people.
Accusing the present dispensation of corruption and red tape, Singh said that it had become a non performing liability for the people of the J&K. “With its administrative apparatus having totally crumbled, non performance, mal-governance patronized corruption and fiscal undisciplined are hallmarks of the un-ethical BJP-PDP alliance. While the common man is bearing the brunt of non-governance, Ministers play ducks and drakes with tax payers’ money by persistently hiking their salaries, perks and other privileges,” he alleged.
On the local issues of constituency, Mr Singh said that Ramnagar had witnessed the worst era of under development, corruption, decadence and non performance during the last three years. He assured the people to rake up the development issues of the constituency at the appropriate forum and to ensure their time bound settlement.
JKNPP State president Balwant Singh Mankotia, while addressing the youth, said that statehood for Jammu alone could satisfy the urges and aspirations of the people especially the youth of Jammu region.
Others who spoke on the occasion, included Pawan Dev Singh, Prikshit Singh, Pushpinder, Des Raj, Pawan Rassal, Sanjay Dalsar, Rakesh Gupta, Sunil Sumbriya, Ganesh Dass, Vinod Sharma, Mohan Lal Sharma, Rashpaul Singh, Sahil Sharma, Uttam Singh and Mohit Mankotia.
Hundreds of Young Panthers thereafter took out a rally which passed through Main Bazaar and various wards of Ramnagar.