Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: Accusing the BJP-PDP coalition of promoting the secessionists and pursuing separatist agenda in the State, a large number of NPP activists led by party chairman Harsh Dev Singh and State president Young Panthers Y P Kundal today organized a massive protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground and torched the effigy of the ruling alliance.
The protesters raising loud slogans, sought the dismissal of the ruling coalition in the interest of security of the State and the country.
Addressing the party activists and media persons, Harsh Dev said that portrayal of Asiya Andrabi as a woman achiever in the State Government festival could not have been possible without the approval of the helmsmen in the Government. He said it was a pre-planned and calculated move to promote Asiya Andrabi through official function with the avowed objective of appeasement of separatists and to gain their support. He said that having achieved the desired purpose, the PDP obliged BJP as a measure of face saving for the latter, suspending a lower rung officer of the level of CDPO.
Lambasting the BJP-PDP Government for its manipulative politics, Singh said that such like tantrums only evoked cynicism amongst the masses besides eroding its already dented credibility. He said that it was not the first time that separatists were being so eulogized. Recalling the gory incidents of stone pelting in the recent past in Kashmir, he said that the ring leader of stone pelters named Farooq Dar, who was tied by the Army men to the bonnet of a Jeep for his seditious acts, was also awarded and a compensation of Rs 10 lakh announced for him.
He further made a mention of the Government policy announcing Rs four lakh each for the families of deceased stone pelters including Government jobs for their NoKs. He lamented non-initiation of action against those who raised pro- Pak slogans, hoisted Pak flags and dishonoured national symbols including Tricolour in Kashmir and elsewhere in the State.
Describing the BJP-PDP alliance as unholy, unethical and opportunist, Singh remarked that it posed a greatest threat to security of state and nation.
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