NPP filling political vacuum in Jammu region: Harsh Dev

NPP chairman, Harsh Dev Singh at party convention in Ramnagar on Sunday.
NPP chairman, Harsh Dev Singh at party convention in Ramnagar on Sunday.

Excelsior Correspondent
RAMNAGAR, Jan 20: Former Minister and NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh today said that while BJP assisted Mehbooba Mufti in implementing a significant part of her agenda during the aborted coalition rule, it hopelessly failed to deliver on even a single promise made by it with its own electorates.
Addressing a large convention of Young Panthers organized by youth wing of the party in Ramnagar town today, party chairman said the erstwhile rule witnessed the complete eclipse of Jammu related issues with both State and Central Governments desperately wooing Mehbooba Mufti and her Kashmir centric agenda.
“The release of a record number of stone-pelters besides other notorious elements in Kashmir was ordered at the behest of Mehbooba Mufti as a part of her political agenda. The declaration of unilateral ceasefire which was initially opposed by Army as well as Defence Minister was also ordered in a bid to appease Mehbooba and to promote her political agenda. Similarly, it was in the BJP-PDP Govt that a highly communal order with regard to the tribal settlements was issued with the saffron Ministers acting as mute spectators. Again the BJP had to eat a humble pie when PDP leadership prevailed in Rasana case refusing to honour the demand of Jammu people for CBI probe. And whereas the PDP leadership refused to budge even an inch with respect to its core philosophy, it was the BJP which made one surrender after the other and compromising eventually even the self respect and pride of Dogras”, Singh regretted.
The NPP leader pointed out that slogan of the abrogation of Art 370 which earlier remained the major poll plank of BJP for several decades, was sacrificed immediately after the elections at the altar of power politics. And when Article 35-A was challenged, the BJP led Govt hired five advocates in the court to defend the same, rued Harsh. He maintained that the educated youth of Jammu bore the severest brunt of unethical alliance when their routine share in employment also went the Kashmir way.
Pointing towards the utter neglect of Mubarak Mandi Project and Tawi Artificial Lake project, Singh regretted that Dogra culture and heritage too suffered criminal apathy at the hands of BJP leadership. Senior party leader Manju Singh also spoke on the occasion.

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