Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 22: Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla has alleged that State Government has scripting very sad saga of pushing State to the wall in every respect.
While interacting with prominent persons of Gandhi Nagar today, Bhalla said despite protests and appeals to the present Government, no plan has been made for road widening or constructing flyovers. Basic infrastructure of hospitals, sanitation, sewage system is still missing and every heavy downpour results in extensive damages to these localities and now a days even localities of Gandhi Nagar, Nanak Nagar which never witnessed flood like situation in the past have started feeling the pinch.
For citizens, commuting has become a daily nightmare and a challenge to avoid accidents as everyone tries to move ahead of the other. With the increased congestion and ever increasing travel time, the commuters’ patience is wearing thin day by day. Common parking spaces should be created near residential areas and work specific zones.
He said the story of the J&K BJP post March 2015 is one of broken promises. While its coalition partner PDP has been implementing its agenda step by step to cater to the sentiments of its constituency in Kashmir, the BJP has been failing on each and every front, thus alienating its own constituency. The BJP had promised all citizenship rights to the refugees from Pakistan in its vision document, but left them in the lurch. It said it could not grant them citizenship rights because it was not part of the agenda of alliance. It had promised that it would take concrete steps to rehabilitate displaced Kashmiri Hindus, but the State Government even refused to set up even a colony for them in Kashmir. The BJP had promised that it would give the refugees from PoJK full compensation but it failed to fulfill the commitment. With the result, they continue to demonstrate for their rights and against the BJP. The BJP had promised that it would deliver justice to Jammu, but what it did was just to the contrary. It has rendered the people of Jammu province ineffective and unreal for all practical purposes through the Kashmir-centric employment and admission policy and by denying Jammu adequate share in developmental funds.
While Jammu region as a whole has suffered unexampled bias in multifarious fields after the formation of the present coalition, the unemployed Jammu youth continue to bear the severest brunt of the most discriminatory agenda of the incumbent BJP-PDP rule in the form of their near obliteration in various selection lists issued during the past two and half years, Bhalla said.
Meanwhile, Raman Bhalla strongly condemned the lathicharge on Anganwari workers in Jammu. He visited Gandhi Nagar hospital to enquired about health of injured in lathi-charge. He said lathicharge on women had given the most obnoxious blow to the often parroted slogan of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ being sold by BJP leaders across the nation with big splash.
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