Excelsior Correspondent
DODA, Apr 5: Senior Congress leader and party’s Lok Sabha candidate from Udhampur-Doda Constituency Vikramaditya Singh today tore into BJP for its failure to develop the required infrastructure and utilize the tourism potential of Chenab Valley region which possessed enormous bounties of nature having vast scope to lure tourists in abundance.
“It is ‘criminal’ that in the last five years the remote areas of Chenab Valley region faced worst ever neglect of the BJP Governments both at State and the Central level,” he said while lampooning BJP’s incumbent MP’s myopic vision about ‘development’ which revolves only around ‘Phinter Bridge and its alike’, that he never misses to mention every now and then and on daily basis.
He expressed concern that despite having umpteen resources the region is lacking in education and health sectors and people out there are relying on age-old infrastructure merely to sustain and survive.
Addressing a series of public meetings in the remote areas of the constituency including Padder, Warwan and Dacchan, the Congress candidate condemned sitting MP for doing nothing to improve road network and lessen the number of accidents which is one of the main issues in the region.
Vowing to ensure adequate infrastructure for improving the scenario of health, education and roads in the region, Vikramaditya Singh said that Congress is the only party which understands fully the pain of the people of Chenab region especially its far-off areas which have been badly exploited by the current BJP dispensation with ‘zero’ development and complete neglect. He said that despite enjoying full support of Central Government, Dr Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister for ‘so many’ ministries including PMO, never paid any heed to uplift this region, which paved way for him to enter the corridors of Parliament.
“It is intriguing that MP from Udhampur Constituency is craving for development of Northeast, when his own constituency is lurching for mere basic needs of life and people here fed up and crying for basic amenities”, he said.
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