Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 28: Alleging that another doze of discriminatory treatment had been administered to Jammu region in the form of drastic cut in subsidized Kerosene oil supply to the region, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP & former Minister said that BJP Government seemed to be hell-bent to break its own existing records of its highly biased conduct against its own core political constituency during the last few years.
While addressing media persons after admitting into party fold around 25 youth, he said that the figures provided by the FCS and CA Department had revealed that while Kashmir region was being flooded with Kerosene oil supply, the Jammu region was being made to content with a mere sprinkling.
Mr Singh said that the statistics provided by FCS and CA and available on its official website as well revealed that the Government had approved allocation of 2748 liters of subsidized Kerosene Oil (SKO) for Kashmir region for August and same quantity for September 2020 as well. On the contrary, he revealed, the allocation for all districts of Jammu region totaled 396 liters for August and same quantity for September. Furthermore, the allocation for Rajouri and Udhampur districts was ‘zero’ for both August and September, said Singh adding that this was only a tip of the iceberg with such prejudiced treatment having been going on for past quite some time.
Mr Singh said that not only in SKO but the FCS and CA Department had removed thousands of eligible persons of Jammu region from BPL categories thereby depriving the bonafide persons of the benefits of various Government schemes.
Regretting the unabated pace of discrimination against Jammu region in multifarious fields even after Reorganization of State, Mr Singh said that BJP was playing dirty politics merely to woo Kashmir voters. He regretted that while Kashmir and Ladakh continued to get focused attention of helmsmen, what was falling in the kitty of Jammu was only peanuts. Sounding a note of caution to BJP rulers, Mr Singh said that while the saffron party would lose its core constituency of Jammu due to its policy of Kashmir appeasement, the lotus shall never bloom in Kashmir.
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