Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 10: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla has said that time has come for the people of Jammu region to punish the BJP for the “total let-down on all fronts”, particularly on the promise of restoring the prestige of the area by eradicating regional discrimination.
“People have been left high and dry while the BJP, in alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ignored the state for three years with its Delhi high command colluding in substantial measure, before enacting a drama of breaking the alliance,” Bhalla, said while addressing Congress workers at Akali Kour Singh Nagar in Gandhi Nagar constituency.
He said the BJP-PDP Government did not make any efforts to relieve the weaker sections of their hardships. Incompetence of BJP and PDP pushed back State in all sectors. No progress has been recorded in the core sectors like PHE, PDD, R&B, UEED, Health, Education, etc during three years.
Alleging that BJP-PDP failed to come up to the expectations of the masses in the State, Bhalla urged youth to join hands with the Congress party. Expressing his anguish over total failure of official machinery to solve day-to-day problems of the people, senior Congress leader said that Government’s failure forced the people to adopt agitational path.
Former Minister said that while the insensitive coalition failed in assuaging urges and aspirations of the people on political front, its record in governance was quite dismal. “The state was virtually witnessing mis-governance with Government nowhere to be seen on ground”, he said, adding that if all there is any visibility of the PDP and BJP anywhere in the state, it was for all the wrong reasons of exploiting people and inciting them to fight each other
Bhalla assailed ‘PDP-BJP’ for contemptuously ignoring peoples’ aspirations and taking vicarious pleasure in their accumulating woes. He said the efforts of the Congress Govt during six years on putting the state on the path of progress and normalcy have been undone by the ‘anti-people coalition’.
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