Dr Jitendra, Sood, Raina highlight Modi Govt’s achievements
Avtar Bhat
KATRA, May 29: In run up to the Assembly elections, BJP today decided to launch mass public contact programme in length and breadth of J&K to apprise the people of the public welfare schemes and development projects launched by Narendra Modi Government during last eight years of BJP rule at Centre.
Close on the heels of National Working Committee meeting held in Jaipur, Rajasthan, BJP organised its two day office bearers and Working Committee meeting at Jammu and Katra respectively in which the senior leaders urged the party men to launch a mass contact programme from Parliament to Panchayat level and visit length and breadth of the UT to apprise the people of the achievements of the Modi Government and forcefully negate the Opposition propaganda.
The party also through its political resolution while strongly condemning Pak sponsored terrorism and killing of innocent people in Kashmir said that Pakistan is hell bent to destroy J&K but it will not succeed in its machinations and its designs will be totally frustrated. The resolution also decided to cut to size the separatists and fundamental forces in the UT by transforming the society.
The State Executive Meeting (SEM) was chaired by party president, Ravinder Raina and among others it was addressed by Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh and party Seh Prabhari Ashish Sood.
Both Dr Jitendra Singh and Ashish Sood who highlighted the eight years achievements of Narendra Modi Government urged the party men to take the public welfare schemes launched by the Government to every nook and corner of the UT.
Sood said that the people should be apprised of eight years achievements by the party leadership. He said there was a paradigm shift in people’s life during this period while highlighting various public welfare schemes of the Government. He said Modi brought a revolutionary change in the society. The mass contact being launched by the party should be structured and focused, he added.
The party, while holding Pakistan responsible for killing of innocent people, however, commended Government and security forces for their efforts in restoration of peace and weeding out terrorism. But it stressed on taking extra measures in putting an end to selective killings which took place in Kashmir during last one year and ensuring fool proof security to minorities living there.
Ravinder Raina, while taking to Excelsior after the meeting said that the dreaded militants will not be spared and eliminated one by one. He said Government has tightened noose on Yasin Malik and Bita Karrate who were responsible for killing of innocent people and waging a war against the nation.
The Party in another resolution highlighted achievements of Modi Government and many projects launched by it in the UT and liberal funding given by Centre for overall development of J&K. It termed the strengthening of three-tier democratic system in the UT a great achievement of which the erstwhile State was deprived for last 70 years. But this all became possible after abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. It said that earlier Governments were only confined to Assembly elections and did not want transfer of power to grossroots level.
The resolution said with the abrogation of 370, ACB was given teeth, e- tendering became possible and corruption was contained to a great extent. Many projects like AIIMS, Ring Road , IIT, four lanning of highways and double lanning of roads etc took place.
In the economic resolution, the party stressed on settling the issue of protesting daily wagers and demanded their regularisation in phased manner. It said that a policy be framed in this regard and Central Wages Act be implemented in the UT. Moreover, the liabilities of MGNREGA from 2016 to 2019 be cleared . The resolution also demanded that issues of REK, REJ NHM workers and contractual employees be settled.
The political resolution was read by party spokesperson Ranbir Singh Pathania, while social resolution was read by former Minister, Priya Sethi and economic resolution by ex Minister, Sat Sharma and they were passed by voice vote.
In the Working Committee, the MPs were asked to select 100 booths in their constituencies where the party has not fared well in previous elections while exMLAs were asked to select 25 such booths in their constituencies and frame committees which will suggest measures for strengthening party in these booths.
The party said that Congress, NC and PDP are rejected by the people, and BJP will form the next Government in J&K with absolute majority.
Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh in his address said that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s governance reforms have a deep social impact and are aimed at finally achieving the goal of ‘ease of living’ for the common man through ‘ease of governance’.
Dr Jitendra Singh recalled that when Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee decided to resign from the Union Cabinet on differences with the then Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru and launched Bharatiya Jan Sangh, he had told his colleagues in the “Vichar Parivar” that it was imperative to have a political outfit to be able to seek access to the seat of State authority in order to implement the agenda envisaged by them for independent India. During the last eight years, the Modi-led Government, with absolute majority of BJP, had vindicated the purpose, resolve and commitment with which Mookerjee had laid the foundation of this political party, he added.
He also recalled that it is a divine coincidence that Jammu & Kashmir BJP is holding its Working Committee meeting coinciding with successful completion of eight years of the Modi Government in the holy town of Katra- Vaishno Devi, from where Narendra Modi had started his Lok Sabha election campaign after being designated as the Party’s Prime Minister candidate by the BJP.
Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that while most of the Governments take pride in introducing new laws and rules, it was under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi that over 1,600 such rules and laws had been done away with, which had become obsolete and lost relevance with the passage of time. Dr Jitendra Singh said, the hallmark of Modi’s governance model is his capacity to take out-of-box decisions, capacity to break the taboos of the past and the capacity to convert Government’s campaign into mass campaign on the basis of his courage, conviction and sincerity.
The meeting was addressed by BJP general secretary (Org) Ashok Koul who threw light on organisational matters and forthcoming programmes. BJP general secretary Dr D K Manyal, conducted the proceedings while vice president Pawan Khajuria read the condolence note of leaders and others who lost their lives in recent months and Rekha Mahajan presented report on Maan Ki Baat. Former presidents, Ashok Khajuria, Nirmal Singh, Shamsher Singh Manhas, MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and national secretary Dr Narinder Singh were also on the dais.
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