Cong poised for highest ever tally in Jammu region: Bhalla

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 19: Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today claimed that Congress Party is poised for highest ever tally in Jammu region in next Assembly elections.
Interacting with the protesting students and others here today, Bhalla said educations has been one of the sectors where ousted PDP-BJP Govt during the past four years has done nothing substantial. There was need for improving the quality of education being provided to the students and raising the level of infrastructure that is otherwise available.
Bhalla while expressing serious concern over protest by students seeking admission in Jammu Colleges, said that the students who recently qualified class 12th bi-annual exams must get admission for under-graduate courses in colleges. Bhalla urged Governor’s Administration to go ahead with granting admission to these students for under-graduate courses. He said that the workload on contractual lecturers should be eased and the messy semester system should be rectified.
Cautioning people against the “evil designs of frustrated political outfits”, Bhalla called upon them “to maintain unity and foil all these machinations with courage and fortitude.” He sought a decisive mandate for Congress, saying a “stable and strong government is pre-requisite for satiating political, economic and developmental issues of Jammu and Kashmir.”
He said Jammu and Kashmir is virtually at the cross roads of its history, as the two mandated parties kept personal interests above the larger interest of the people on every issue.
Later, addressing public gathering at Bahu Fort in Gandhi Nagar Bhalla said that the invalid and “morally wrong alliance” has left a lesson for the people to take their decisions with caution and wisdom for which the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are known. Bhalla said the failed PDP-BJP experience has posed a big challenge for the Congress to reinstate peoples’ faith in parliamentary democracy that has been hugely eroded by the two parties. He came down heavily on the duo for their “political bankruptcy and immaturity”, which they are demonstrating in immense measure by indulging in blames and counter blames.
He said the emotive, divisive, communal and regional politics played by the erstwhile coalition partners has hurt the consciousness of the people, who have been pushed to worse kind of split. There is need for bridging the gap, which alone can be done by Congress.

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