Excelsior Correspondent
KUD, Sept 27: Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister has alleged that the Union Ministers are on a sabbatical in J&K on Government expense as troublesome areas have been omitted from their itinerary and disgruntled people are avoided.
While addressing NPP’s Leadership Training and Public Awareness Camp at Kud today, he said that these visiting Ministers were indulging in inaugurations of some petty development works having nothing to offer to the people of J&K with their speeches full of tired shibboleths. “It was not understandable as to how the same could help them achieve their objective of educating people about benefits of abrogation of Article 370. It was further not clarified as to what prompted them to visit J&K with the aforesaid motive two years after the scrapping of Art 370 and downgrading of the State into UTs”, asserted Singh.
Taking a pot-shot at the Ministers for making announcements of some development schemes, Mr Singh said that majority of them were already ongoing projects. And several other announcements were only a repetition of the promises made earlier, he added.
Asserting that Ministers’ sojourn to J&K under the name and style of “Public outreach programme” was only an eyewash, Mr Singh said that it had nothing to do with the aspirations of the people. “The people were being hardly taken on board during the said programmes. It was a one way communication from the Ministers who believed in monologues only. The people in general were not allowed to ventilate their feelings or to project their grievances during the programmes of Ministers. And such being the nature of the so called Public outreach programmes, they had evoked more of a cynicism than appreciation. These sojourns to J&K had in essence proved as pleasure trips of Central Ministers who had opted for a peaceful J&K as against the all other disturbed States of the country bearing the brunt of opposition’s onslaughts and protests over multifarious issues”, maintained Singh.
Former Minister and senior NPP leader, Yashpaul Kundal exhorted the people to strengthen the Panthers Party as it alone could navigate the people of Jammu region. He said that NPP believed in equitable treatment to both the regions of J&K without any bias or ill will against the region.
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