Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: JKPCC vice president and former minister Raman Bhalla today claimed that all the development that is seen in J&K was ensured by the previous Congress Government.
While presiding over meeting of District Congress Committee Jammu Urban, Bhalla while reacting to the J&K UT budget said the budget is directionless which brought no cheers to the common people especially the youth, students, the farmers and the labour class who suffered a lot due to worst economic slowdown and the covid situation. He said there are no effort to boost the rural economy and create job opportunities in the wake of large scale unemployment and retrenchments in the recent years due to wrong economic policies of BJP Government coupled with covid situation.
There is no respite from the ever increasing prices of all commodities of common use and unprecedented price hike of petrol, diesel despite drastic fall in the rates of crude oil in international market. The J&K seems to have been forgotten by BJP Govt in this budget and there is no focus on the most badly affected people of this troubled part who have been facing worst economic slowdown due to the various kinds of changes brought by the BJP Government in last one and half years. He condemned the Budget and said it failed to come up to the expectations of the students’ community.
A gap between rural areas and urban areas should have been curtailed but no such action had been taken while fabricating the Budget 2021. He said due to Covid, students and teachers were expecting an education budget. He called the working class, farmers and low paid employees besides school going children of the poor class as `victims of BJP’s Budget’.
Former minister launching a scathing attack on the BJP accusing the ruling party at the Centre of destroying democratic, ethnic and social fabric of the nation. He said India was the only robustly functioning and flourishing democracy in South Asian region, thanks to the magnanimous role played by the Congress in the 70 years of history of the nation. Bhalla said that it is for the first time in the country that a Government which indulges in such lies has come to power. BJP is not saying anything other than lies,” he said.
Senior leaders Manmohan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Rajnish Sharma also spoke on the occasion. Prominent among those who were present on the occasion include Madan Lal Malaghar, Dr Rama Kant Khajuria, Sanjeev Panda, Satish Sharma, Amrit Bali, Dewarka Choudhry, Varinder Manhas.
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