Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 16: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today said that Congress is strong enough in all three regions to emerge out as single largest party and would return to power in the next Assembly elections in the State.
Interacting with prominent persons of Ward No 73 Bhour Camp in Gandhi Nagar constituency, Bhalla said that Congress is the only secular force having great acceptability in all sections and three regions, as people have realized that Congress alone can ensure equal share and equitable development to three regions and all parts of the State.
Bhalla strongly maintained that ever since the elections in December 2014, the BJP left no stone unturned in ensuring retention in power at the cost of public sentiments. It entered into the most unlikely alliance with the PDP just to be in power. The party got its Ministers into the Cabinet, but the irreconcilable ideological gap made governance a nightmare. For a party that set high standards in opposition, both nationally and in States, its approach in J&K has been both disjointed and a disappointment.
“The 2014 excitement, expectations and display is terribly missing with disregard growing among people due to policy paralysis of the Govt, which is struggling to put its act together after plunging the State into unprecedented political and administrative crisis.
Bhalla said that the people of Jammu are feeling let down and betrayed, as their problems are accumulating with each passing day. He said the arrogance of power and lack of governance distanced the BJP from its core agenda, people of Jammu hugely realizing the mistake of putting them into the cradle of administrators.
“For over six decades, the BJP had been exploiting the Jammu sentiment by crying hoarse over the so-called discrimination, deprivation and neglect but when it came to delivering, they just raised their hands”, he said, adding that not only the BJP pushed the region to backwards but also turned out as a big obstacle in its development and progress.
DCC president Jammu (Urban) Vikram Malhotra also spoke on the occasion.
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