Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: JKPCC working president, Raman Bhalla today said that Jammu and Kashmir lost its identity under BJP and appealed to the people to support Congress in the fight for the restoration of statehood.
He said BJP regime has destroyed Jammu and Kashmir in various spheres, as it lost its identity, status, right over jobs, lands, opportunities of trade and transport and business besides whatsoever selections and recruitment were done in the UT, witnessed corruption and scams. He was addressing Block meeting at Bahu Constituency organised by Block president Jatinder Singh Chib.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that people have exploited in the name of a bright future, control prices, and two crore jobs annually. But all their promises have fallen flat, except politics of hate and division. He said that Jammu and Kashmir was a historical state with much better living conditions than most states in the country, but now it has been pushed into an atmosphere of political uncertainty.
Bhalla said the more delay in restoring statehood was bound to cause more disconnect between Centre and JK people, who were feeling hurt after the Centre’s move to downgrade the historical and full-fledged State into two Union Territories without their consent, the Centre has to address that disconnect, at right earnest, keeping in view the urges and aspirations of the people.
Criticizing the recently concluded visit of Central Ministers in J&K, he said no one from them even a single word for the minority community and about 60000 casual workers expecting their regularization. He asserted that Congress is the only viable alternative to the divisive policies of BJP, which has vitiated the political, social, secular, and democratic atmosphere in the country and Jammu and Kashmir. He said Congress party is committed to restore the lost glory of the state when it will be in Government with the blessings of aggrieved citizens of J&K.
Yogesh Sawhney said that since BJP took over in 2014, the miseries of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have increased manifold. He said all the promises made to the people prior to the Assembly elections of 2014 remained unfulfilled. More than eight years have passed, but they (BJP) failed to fulfil any of the promises, be it the problems faced by youth, problems of the farmers or the problems of refugees and Kashmiri Pandits, this Government has done nothing to address those problems.
Corporator Kamal Singh, Sarpanch Hafiz Aulla, Diwan Chand, Latish Sharma, Gopal Sharma, Sahil Shavotra, Panch Ayub, Balwinder Singh and others were also present on the occasion.
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