Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 21: PCC vice president and former minister Raman Bhalla has alleged that BJP Government has failed to reaching out to the common man and address public issues.
Addressing a meeting of District Congress Committee Jammu Urban, organized by Vikram Malhotra -District president at party office here today, Bhalla said that the State of Jammu and Kashmir has been reduced to the level of administrative unit and the glory of the State has been snatched and ruined at the hands of BJP. He added that even after formal transition of J&K from State to UT on October 31, the issue of domicile safeguard and job safety and security has been left unaddressed. The future of lakhs of unemployed youth is in jeopardy, he added.
Bhalla said that present dispensation is turning a blind eye towards the apprehensions and concerns of people of the State, especially Jammu region. Expressing solidarity with the lawyers, he said that ever as the strike of the lawyers continues there has been no effort on the part of the Government to resolve the stalemate. Similarly, the striking PDD employees have taken to streets for the past several weeks but their demands and concerns seem to fall on deaf ears. He urged upon the party workers to unite and protest against the anti people decisions of this Government and become the voice of the people of Jammu.
Taking a dig at Union Govt, Bhalla claimed that Jammu region is reeling under shortage of various basic requirements but Govt is unmoved. He said Govt lacks approach which is based on consistency, clarity, conviction and creating only mess making people to suffer unnecessarily without any fault of theirs. If you have a tough policy against terrorism, we do not oppose it. He observed that under BJP regime in the Centre, poor people are not able to have two square meals due to sky-rocketing prices.
Malhotra in his address said that Govt in a bid to demonstrate its powers and authority had resorted to such undemocratic move which was not in tune with the concept of liberal democracy. Ridiculing the argument that mobile internet ban had been imposed to prevent its misuse by anti-nationals, Malhotra said that Govt can’t give collective punishment to society for the sins of a handful of offenders. If there are apprehensions of misuse of internet services by miscreants, this doesn’t mean that the entire system should be made to suffer.
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