‘INDI Alliance will win all LS seats in J&K’
Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA/JAMMU, Apr 16: Senior AICC leader and Congress star campaigner Sachin Pilot attacked Election Commission (EC) for remaining silent when the accounts of the main opposition party were frozen and elected Chief Ministers were sent to jail.
While campaigning for his party’s candidate, Choudhary Lal Singh from Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency, Pilot accused the BJP Government of playing “religious politics to divert attention from its failures” on the development front.
“The Election Commission is watching as a mute spectator. In connection with the Chandigarh Mayoral elections, we had to move to the Supreme Court for justice, and we got it. They sealed the accounts of the Congress, put elected Chief Ministers in jail, and tried to muzzle the opposition,” Pilot said while addressing a large rally at Ram Leela Ground in Kathua.
He criticised the BJP leaders for allegedly using religion for political gains, saying, “They centre their politics around issues like Mandir-Masjid, Hindu-Muslim, Hindustan and Pakistan. However, they show little interest in issues concerning schools, colleges, hospitals, economy, employment, women, youth, farmers and inflation.”
Pilot claimed that there is a wave of change sweeping the entire country.
“I went to Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Harayan, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh. I want to tell you – it is not true what the media and social media is projecting. But the truth is that the 10-year rule of the BJP Government is being questioned by the people.
People are seeking a report card of ten years’ rule of the BJP Government on the ground,” he said.
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Highlighting the Congress manifesto, Pilot mentioned five major announcements, including a guarantee that women from poor families would receive Rs 1 lakh in their accounts annually.
“Under the rule of the Lieutenant Governor, outsiders are encroaching lands. Lands that are being cultivated are being snatched from the people and given to outsiders,” Pilot alleged.
Hitting out at the BJP leaders over their remarks on Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, he said, “I want to tell you that elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held before September this year. It is not the Government saying so but the order of the Supreme Court.”
Pilot said that in a similar way, the Ram temple was built after the Supreme court’s judgment. “It was a judgement of the Supreme Court that the Ram Temple be constructed in Ayodhya. It was an order of the Supreme Court that electoral bonds are illegal. These things have been done on orders of the Supreme court”, he added.
He said the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat is set to go to polls on April 19. He appealed the people to cast their votes in favour of Congress candidate.
Ch Lal Singh also addressed the gathering and sought public support in his favour.
Later, addressing an election rally in support of Cong candidate Raman Bhalla in RS Pura area of Jammu Lok Sabha constituency, Pilot said INDI Alliance will win all the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
He said J&K people have suffered a lot post abrogation of Art 370. The promised made with the people were never fulfilled. Their job and lands were snatched and unemployment reached alarming proportion. The youth is frustrated and drugs addition has increased manifold during last one decade.
The BJP was trying to divert the attention of the people from basic issues by raising emotional and religious slogans. They have nothing to do with the development and resolving the issue of unemployment. He said the wave of change is blowing in the country and people will reject BJP and its policy of division in the society and politics of hate.
JKPCC president, Vikar Rasool Wani, AICC joint secretary, Manoj Yadav, Congress candidate Raman Bhalla, T S Bajwa, Balwan Singh, T S Tony and others also spoke on the occasion.
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