Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 6: Castigating PDP-BJP coalition for pushing people to the wall, former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today said Jammu region has been worst hit where the Government is almost missing and the public delivery almost set aside.
Addressing prominent persons from Channi Rama and Pamposh Colony today here as a part of his mass contact programme, Bhalla urged the people of Jammu province to sit together to find if they committed a grave blunder by voting for the anti-Jammu BJP and if they came to the conclusion that they did, then they must get united to get rid of this party.
Bhalla said that since the BJP had miserably failed to live up to the people’s expectations by surrendering all the Jammu based issues for the lust of power, the people of Jammu region were giving overwhelming response to the policies of Congress Party. While flaying the BJP’s policy of deceit, duplicity and double standards, Bhalla cautioned the people not to get trapped again by the rhetoric and tall pronouncements of the party and exhorted them to support and strengthen their own Congress Party which alone had the capacity and audacity to raise the voice of the people of Jammu region besides combating the anti-national elements.
On the local issues of Gandhi Nagar constituency, Bhalla regretted the total neglect of the constituency with not even a single new work taken up for execution during the last more than two years. He further regretted the abandonment of all development works initiated during tenure of Congress Govt. Bhalla said that the projects undertaken by ERA during NC-Congress regime were quite effective but soon after BJP-PDP Government took over the reins no drainage project has been given to ERA.
He alleged that the Government failed to take lessons from the September 2014 rains and floods and did not undertake the required dredging of nallahs for free flow of water and construction, repairs and maintenance of embankments to minimise the loss and damage to the properties and people during rainy seasons for the last three years. Choked nallahs and drains led to water logging in many areas damaging property worth lakhs.
Bhalla said nallah in Channi Rama area washed away several lanes and entered many houses. About 4-5 feet deep large drain had been created in the main lane. Despite requests to the JMC authorities no protection work was done in the area.
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