Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 3: MLA Udhampur and former Minister Pawan Gupta criticized the State administration for ignoring the protocol during the Prime Minister’s visit to Jammu yesterday to inaugurate the Chenani-Nashri tunnel in Jammu province.
In a statement issued here today he said this has sent a wave of disappointment through the entire length and breadth of Jammu region.
Pawan Gupta while taking the State administration to task said not allowing the local MLA to share the dais was totally violation of the protocol and a well the set precedence. He said the president of State BJP Sat Sharma was allowed to have a seat on dais while he being a local public representative was ignored totally.
This has not happened in past and the same was done on the behest of State BJP just to outwit its opponents which is totally against the healthy democracy.
Gutpa said What has been more shocking for all the responsible citizens of the state is that a government function was transformed into a partisan party function of BJP and PDP. People were brought in the State Road Transport Corporation buses displaying PDP and BJP flags to participate in the programme. Would the Government explain how the SRTC buses been provided by hosting Party flags for the Rally for political purposes and how much money had been received by SRTC for ferrying these workers to the rally site amounting to the gross abuse of the government machinery. It has only added to the woes of the already loss making SRTC , he added.
The normal protocol for conducting the ceremony was brazenly put aside by choosing to put the BJP party President in the state on the dais with the Prime Minister thereby converting the occasion into a party function.
Not only that, the local MLA of Udhampur, was not invited to be on the dais. It has always been a customary practice that in all such government functions the sitting MLA is accorded the respect of a host. PDP-BJP government chose to dump this propriety and instead provided space on the dais to its own MLA who did not belong to the constituency where programme was being held.
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