Chugh, Thakur to address workshop
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 23: As a run up to Budget Session of J&K Assembly beginning from February 2, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the main opposition in the House is holding a one day workshop for its legislators here tomorrow for discussing the party’s strategy to be adopted on varied issues as a healthy opposition party.
The workshop among others will be attended by BJP national general secretary and incharge J&K and Ladkah UTs, Tarun Chugh, former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and senior party leader, Jai Ram Thakur and Speaker Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta besides the J&K president BJP and MP , Rajya Sabha, Sat Sharma, BJP Legislative Party Leader (LoP), Sunil Sharma, national secretary and MLA, R S Pura, Dr Narinder Singh, party general secretary (Org), Ashok Koul, party chief whip in the Assembly, Rajiv Jasrotia and other senior leaders. All 29 MLAs of the party are participating in the workshop.
According to party sources, BJP will raise the issues concerning the public in the upcoming Assembly session forcefully and take on with Government for its failure in fulfilling its poll promises which included 200 units of free electricity, regularisation of daily wagers, free gas connections to economically weaker sections, besides creating job avenues for the unemployed youth etc.
The party sources said that BJP legislators will take a tough stance in the Assembly during the session. During the workshop a strategy to be adopted by the party legislators for the forthcoming Assembly session, sources added.
Sources said in a meeting of party Legislators early this month serious concern was shown that Rs 10 crore previously sanctioned for each flood hit district in the UT by Centre were also extended to Kashmir Valley where there was no loss by floods while the Jammu region was totally affected.
Sources said the BJP will seek proper and equal distribution of Rs 1430 crore Central Special assistance for flood hit people of J&K and ensure that the Jammu which faced lot of destruction and devastation during the last year’s flash floods, cloud bursts and landslides gets its due share in proportion to damages suffered by the people of this region.
Sources said the BJP believes that ruling party has failed to fulfil its promises during over last one year of its Government as not a single promise was fulfilled in this period. The party being the watchdog of people’s rights will not allow the NC Government to continue its policy of regional discrimination which Jammu has always been subjected to during its rule, sources added.
Sources said party national general secretary, Tarun Chugh will pinpoint the failures of the NC Government in the State during his address in the workshop and ask the legislators to raise all issues with full force as the voice of the people of the UT and as a healthy opposition party.
The party legislators, sources said will be asked not to compromise on basic philosophy of the party nation first and expose the Government for its wrong, anti people and discriminatory policies.
While confirming this BJP UT president and MP Rajya Sabha, Sat Sharma told Excelsior that his party Legislators will expose Government for its failure to come to the expectations of the people of the UT. He said BJP will also mobilise the public opinion against the wrong policies of the Government among the people in the UT.
Maintaining that J&K is an integral part of India, Sat Sharma said unlike other political parties BJP is for the equal development and distribution of funds for the two regions of the UT. He said the Rs 1430 crore Central assistance for flood hit people of J&K needs to be distributed in proportion to damage suffered by the two regions. The Jammu region has suffered 90 percent damage in the last year flash floods, landslides and cloud bursts so it should get its due share. The BJP will not make any compromise on the same, he added.
Sat Sharma said that in various spheres Jammu is still subjected to discriminatory policies and BJP as the main opposition party will not allow it to happen anymore now. “ For us both regions Jammu and Kashmir are equal and we want that both regions should get their due share,” he added.
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