NC, Cong playing petty politics on Maharaja’s name: BJP

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Sept 23: State BJP today lambasted the Congress and National Conference (NC) for politicizing Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth anniversary.
In a statement issued here, BJP general secretary, Dr Narinder Singh questioned the opportunist Congress, NC and other political parties for their failure in   declaring  September 23, the birth anniversary of Maharaja as a public holiday when in power since 1947.
“Congress and NC have ruled the State right till 2014 but these parties never commemorated the last ruler Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth anniversary and his contribution to the development of J&K,. In fact NC under Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah and Congress under Jawahar Lal Nehru conspired to keep Maharaja Hari Singh out of J&K, after the accession of the State with India”, he added.
Singh said it was the BJP that got the resolution moved  by the grandson of ex-Maharaja a BJP Legislator Ajatshatru Singh in the  Upper House of State Legislature in January this year regarding declaring Maharaja’s Hari Singh’s birth anniversary a holiday.  Few other politicians, whose members were earlier in the Congress and later shared power between 2002 and 2005 never moved a resolution for declaring Maharaja’s Hari Singh’s birth anniversary as a holiday, he added.
He said Congress and NC have lost the ground and are bereft of any constructive narrative. These political parties are not able to digest the developmental agenda of the BJP under which premier national level educational institutions namely Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) and others have been sanctioned, out these IIT and IIM stated functioning. Congress and NC did not establish a Medical College at Jammu till early 1970s, and no Engineering College was established in the Jammu region, he added.
The Party general secretary said these parties instead of opening new institutes of higher education closed the only Agriculture College of Jammu region at RS Pura in 1960s and shifted it to Kashmir and winded up Ayurvedic College in 1975. It was BJP’s commitment that Ayurvedic College has been reopened at Jammu otherwise these parties wanted to keep Jammu region educationally backward.
Singh said both NC and Congress are dynastic parties, and they commemorated their dynasties whether naming institutes or commemorating the birth or death anniversaries. NC changed the name of first agricultural university, which was originally to be named after G.M. Sadiq, and named it after Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah and the height of travesty is that Jammu Agricultural University was also named after Sheikh Abdullah and none from Congress and other parties from Jammu protested against it.

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