‘Modi ended discrimination; Nagrota got IIT, IIM’
Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Nov 8 : Taking earlier Governments to task, Union Minister in PMO with independent charge of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences and senior BJP leader, Dr Jitendra Singh accused them of not only deliberately neglecting the region but also consciously exercising discrimination as a part of appeasement policy to keep a certain vote bank in good humour.
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Addressing a mammoth election rally in support of the BJP candidate Devyani Rana, in Jindrah area of Nagrota Assembly segment today, Dr Jitendra Singh said the far off areas of Jammu region like Nagrota were deliberately neglected and ignored by earlier Governments for decades together to appease a particular section of vote bank.
It was only after Narendra Modi came as Prime Minister in 2014 that the decades long discrimination with the neglected areas ended, said Dr Jitendra Singh, and the region started getting it’s due and legitimate share.
Dr Jitendra Singh noted that it was only in the last 11 or 12 years that even a backward place like Nagrota became a part of India’s mainstream region and witnessed overnight transformation with the opening up of high profile institutions like the IIT and IIM, one after the other.
He said many areas in Nagrota were not having road connectivity and faced water crisis prior to its representation by BJP. The people of this area were deprived of basic amenities of life.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, connectivity and delivery of basic services has been significantly improved to bring Jammu and Kashmir at par with the rest of India. He said, the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway corridor, and Circular road passing through Nagrota, is nearing completion and will reduce travel time to just about least six hours or so for Delhi.
The Modi Government has sought to change the political culture to reach out to those who need us the most without consideration of vote bank, said Dr Jitendra Singh and cited schemes like PM Ujwala Yojana for woman which provided a gas cylinder to every needy housewife regardless of whom she had voted for PM Awas Yojana providing a house to homeless regardless of whom the householders voted for.
Stating that BJP has brought fruits of development to the doorstep of every section of society, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the party does not engage in vote bank politics. He said, the party believes in justice for all, rising above narrow considerations of caste, creed and region. He said Prime Minister, Modi ushered in a new culture of governance to ensure equitable development of all regions.
Dr Jitendra Singh gave credit to Jugal Kishore Sharma, MP and Nand Kishore, district president as senior committed leaders who had stood by the party in most difficult times despite all temptations from the then ruling parties and who had mobilised the party cadre to pull out this region from the dubious state of backwardness and under-development.
Recalling the state of affairs before, for the first time, Jugal Kishore was elected as a BJP MLA , Dr Jitendra Singh said, the main road to Jindrah was in a shambles and the water scarcity was so acute that people here had never even seen a tubewell.
Making a special appeal to the youth, whom he described as key voters of today, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the youth today has a mind of his own which cannot be swayed easily and therefore he was not here to persuade the youth through any political jargon, but he wanted them to go home and ask themselves where their future was safe and promising, and they will themselves draw the conclusion that there was no better alternative than a party which was led by Modi, guided by Modi and also whose each worker was accountable for his or her performance.
Striking a personal chord with the voters, Dr Jitendra Singh disclosed that his grandmother Durga Devi, who passed away 25 years back at the age of around 93, hailed from Jindrah. That was early 20th century, he recalled, when a girl child was painfully deprived of the attention or grooming available to her male siblings. We have come a circle since then and PM Modi is today according high priority to ensure equal justice to the girl child, he added
Senior BJP leaders, including MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, party’s district president Nand Kishore Sharma, MLAs Balwant Singh Mankotia, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Dr Manyal and Dr Bhagat were among those who also addressed the rally.
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