Excelsior Correspondent
NAGROTA, Mar 21: Provincial President National Conference Devender Singh Rana today said that inherent contradictions between PDP and BJP were impacting governance in a sensitive State like Jammu and Kashmir, which he observed had potential to impede development, disturb peace and retard growth.
“It is a unique dispensation which despite being in coalition is playing the role of opposition as well by taking opposite stand on issues concerning the state”, Mr Rana said while addressing several public meetings at Majeen, Dhoke Wazira and Chak in Nagrota constituency this afternoon.
He said that false promises made during electioneering and heightened pitch raised over various contentious issues were haunting both the coalition partners which force them to play to the galleries. In this context, he referred to the claims being made by PDP over Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the response being given by the BJP while taking to streets.
“What sort of a combination it is”, he asked and said the people were confused over the drama being enacted by the two parties. He said people want development, peace and a conducive atmosphere for smooth economic activities, especially during the ensuing tourism season and instead the coalition partners are feeding them with rhetoric. “Before elections and post elections, the two parties were attempting to polarize the situation, as they had no concrete agenda for steering the state to development and progress”, he maintained.
The Provincial President expressed apprehension about present dispensation vitiating the peaceful atmosphere generated by the previous Government by braving odds and warned that any such attempt will meet stiff public resistance. He said the people can’t be divided on religious or regional basis anymore, as amity and unity has been the real strength of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Mr Rana said realization was fast dawning on the people about the real agenda of the two parties which played, and are in fact continuing to play, a fixed match, first to usurp the power by deceit and now to carry it on despite contradictions. He said National Conference will fight tooth and nail the negative agenda of the two parties.
He said the religion or caste based politics was fraught with the danger of fragmenting society into bits and pieces. “In such a scenario, we are duty bound as committed soldiers of National Conference to sustain and bequeath the treasure of amity and brotherhood to posterity, as they have to face the fast changing world with a sense of confidence”, he said and urged the people to get ready for meeting this challenge with fortitude.
Prominent among those present during these public meetings included Sarpanch Raman Wazir, Panchs Kuldeep Singh, Kanta Devi, Jamait Ali, Ravi Kumar, Chairman Abdul Hamid, Naib Sarpanch Shiv Dayal, Ms Suman, Ravi Baru, Raj Baru, Sham Lal, Anayat Ali, Rocky, Babu Ram, Sohan Singh, Zorawar Singh and Mohammed Sultan.
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