Excelsior Correspondent
RAMNAGAR, May 17: Terming both BJP and Congress as a full-fledged house of renegades, defectors and tainted leaders, NPP chairman and former minister Harshdev Singh rebuked the traditional parties for time and again playing foul with the people of Jammu region by bartering away their mandate for power.
“BJP already earning notoriety for its duplicity and deceit giving refuge to the defectors has turned into a syndicate of betrayers and opportunists striving for power. Likewise, Congress has also become a hub of turncoats who are looking for their political settlement. Dangerously, both the parties are harping on the tactics of polarization to deceive and distract the electorate from the core issues ahead of the Assembly elections”, Harshdev said while addressing series of public meetings at Balota, Barrian, Kulthian, Marta, Joffer villages of Ramnagar constituency today.
Adjuring people not to fall prey to the unscrupulous leaders who pronounce themselves to be the ‘champions’ of masses, Harshdev asserted that Panthers Party alone has emerged as a pure force of the people of Jammu Pradesh which stood firm with the Dogras at all times.
” During past four years, we have staged more than 400 protests on the issues of Jammu region in Jammu, at Jantar Mantar and outside the Parliament in New Delhi. We were arrested and detained in the jails several times while fighting for your pride and honour”, Harsh Dev said.
He regretted that democracy today had been marred by the political turncoats who frequently cross floors for their self interests. “You have a glaring example of ex- MLA who abandoned Congress and joined BJP just before the Assembly elections in 2014 only to make fortunes for himself. Such politicians dessert their parties, hoodwink people with false slogans, garner votes from the gullible electorate and finally abandon them after ascending power,” cautioned Harshdev.
Singh divulged that one more leader who recently joined Congress after abandoning the PDP, entered the electoral fray in ongoing LS elections on former’s ticket to try his destiny. He was the MLC of the party and after sensing that the PDP ship has sunk, he preferred to cross the floors. Likewise, another Congressman who enjoyed ministerial berths while the party was in power, after spending long years in the party fold deserted Congress and joined BJP. This is nothing but politics of opportunism. He asserted that NPP is the only bold voice of Jammu region.
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