Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 18: Provincial President National Conference Devender Singh Rana today castigated BJP for ditching the people of Jammu by negating their mandate and said they have no right to be in the Government if they are not heard or cannot deliver.
“BJP is in a state of trauma, as its ministers have no idea as to what all was going on in the State”, Mr Rana said at a press conference at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here, held to welcome PDP MLC Depender Kour and her supporters in the National Conference.
Replying to a question on the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu, the Provincial President said. “While we welcome the sanctioning of AIIMS for Kashmir, we demand similar institutes for Jammu and Ladakh, keeping in view the topography, population, influx of tourists-cum-pilgrims and the floating population during winter months”, he said, adding quickly that the party also favours IIM and IIT for the Kashmir Valley.
He reiterated that the Jammu and Kashmir should not be treated as any other state, given the magnitude of turbulence the people suffered during the past two and half decades. The state has peculiar problems and these need be tackled by special dispensation, he said.
Mr Rana said the the insensitive and the irresponsible dispensation has pushed the State to a crisis like situation in just 108 days of its misgovernance with people wondering as to what was left for them in store. The coalition combination has proved the Government to be “off-the-people” rather than “of-the-people. He said if the situation is allowed drift away, the people and the opposition will be left with no alternative other than urging the Governor N N Vohra to dismiss the inept and irresponsible Government, which has failed on all fronts.
Welcoming Mrs Kour into the party fold, Mr Rana described the joining as home coming and said this will further strengthen the party at grass roots level. He said Mrs Kour has a long standing in politics and her guidance to younger generation of workers will stimulate the party at all the levels.
Reposing her immense faith in the policies and programmes of National Conference, Mrs Deepender Kour said she is rejoining the party when it is in opposition only because the PDP has shelved the interests of the Jammu region.
Those present on the occasion included State Vice President Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari, former Minister Babu Rampal, former MLAs Th Rachpal Singh. Bimla Luthra, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, District President Dharamveer Singh Jamwal, Chander Mohan Sharma, Reeta Gupta, Somraj Taroch and others.
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