Excelsior Correspondent
CHENANI, Sept 6: While appealing the people to strengthen and support Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and party chairman today said that a regional party of Jammu alone could deliver justice to the neglected Dogra land.
Accusing the BJP of back stabbing Dogras, Singh said that these self proclaimed champions of Jammu surrendered before the Kashmir centric forces immediately after attaining power by jettisoning even their own fundamentals. They not only acted in furtherance of the agenda of their Kashmir centric bosses during the three and a half year rule but abandoned all issues of Jammu to keep their ally in good humour, Singh maintained.
And now on the eve of elections, these saffron leaders have once again started harping over the old populist slogans of youth empowerment, employment and development packages and the like to hoodwink the gullible masses in a bid to retrieve their lost ground, said Harsh.
Addressing public meetings at Jakhed, Bandhole, Marothi, Sira and Sudhmahadev today Singh said that people could no longer be cajoled by such deceptive slogans as they had very well recognized the duplicitous character of BJP and seen through its opportunistic politics.
Accusing the BJP of playing second fiddle to PDP during its three and a half years, Harsh Dev said that it needed to explain its appeasement of Kashmir in total disregard for Jammu’s sentiment after ascending the thrown of power. He said that it was the time to question the BJP about the promises that it made to its electorates during previous parliamentary and Assembly elections.
“Not only did the BJP fail to keep its promises but inflicted the biggest dent upon Dogra pride and honour by its successive compromises and surrenders. It was with BJP support that PDP and other separatist forces succeeded in dubbing Dogras as ‘rapist supporters’. It was BJP Govt at the Centre and state that denied CBI probe in Rasana case, a demand which was most vociferously made not only by people of District Kathua but entire Dogra belt.
The BJP remained a mute spectator despite series of protests held in support of CBI probe to unearth the truth in Kathua murder case. The BJP ministers preferred to remain mute spectators when Dogras were languishing on roads, he added.
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