Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: Urging upon the people to vote for change, NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh today said that having experimented with various national and other regional political parties of the state, the people of Jammu were a disappointed lot today.
Addressing public meetings in Ward No. 32,33 and 73 of JMC here today Singh said while the national parties including BJP and Congress acted on the dictations of their New Delhi Masters, the NC and PDP had always persisted with their Kashmir centric agenda besides pampering the separatist forces and promoting their agenda. Singh further said that under the circumstances the Jammu region continued to be neglected with the Dogras having been pushed to the wall and made to reconcile with worse than second class status.
He said that having been ignored and deprived by all the said parties, the people of Jammu were increasingly realizing the necessity of a regional party and seriously considering Panthers Party as the viable alternative to all other traditional parties.
Accusing the erstwhile regime and other mandated leaders of Jammu including BJP, Congress, NC and PDP of having belittled and betrayed the people of Jammu, Harsh Dev said that NPP was the only ray of hope and the lone crusader for the cause of Jammu. “Being the only recognized party of the region, it alone could dispense justice to the Dogras as it was neither required to seek consent of Kashmir leaders nor had it to take advice from New Delhi. It alone could agitate the issues confronting the Jammu people and work for restoration of Dogra pride and honour without any kind of intervention of Kashmir or New Delhi,” Singh said.
Flaying the NC and PDP for boycott of local bodies polls, Singh said that these parties and amply demonstrated their contempt for democratic decentralization. He said that not only Congress-NC but also BJP-PDP alliance neglected the empowerment of people during their respective terms only to rule such local bodies by proxy. And consequently, the state was deprived of the funds for development of such units of local self governance which were withheld by GOI, said Singh.
NPP leaders Sham Gorkha, Kesar Parveen, Bachan Dass, Ashwani Kumar, Sunita Bhagat, Anita Choudhary, Partap Singh also accompanied.
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