Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, May 13: Seeking support of Majalta people to lend their support to the movement for restoration of AIIMS to Jammu, Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) chairman and former Minister Harshdev Singh today said that Panthers Party will not allow the BJP to surrender the premier health institute, sanctioned for Jammu, to Kashmir at any cost.
Comparing the BJP with a rudderless ship, the NPP leader said that the mandated leaders of the party not only lacked direction but also failed to address the concerns of their electorates. Accusing the BJP leaders of abandoning their representative character, Mr Singh regretted that the party Ministers and legislators had relinquished the very slogan which catapulted them to power only to appease their Kashmir centric masters.
Addressing large gathering at Majalta today, Harshdev said that BJP which had won by fluke, bluff and blusters has failed to project the cause of its political constituency in the Assembly and outside. He said that the NPP was not opposed to any region but believed in equitable treatment to all regions of the State. He said that his party was only agitating against the shifting of AIIMS sanctioned for Jammu to Kashmir region and not against provision of a new AIIMS to Kashmir if the Govt so desired. He said that BJP leaders who were twisting and turning by making contradictory statements as a measure of face saving were only befooling themselves.
Referring to the local issues, Mr Singh expressed grave concern over the large scale damages of power transformers in various villages and gross negligence of concerned officers in ensuring their repairs, unscheduled power cuts, acute deficiency of staff in schools and health centers, non- payment of salaries to ReTs and other teachers, non provision of ration in majority of villages besides complaints of sale of medicine by Govt health centers in various villages.
Prominent among others who addressed gathering included Manu Singh, Raghubir Singh, Basharat Ali, Dina Nath, Dharam Singh, Simran Dev and Bishan Dass.
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