PDP playing emotional card to mislead displaced Pandits: Balbir

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 24: Balbir Ram Rattan, J&K BJP spokesperson, has said that the type of politics being indulged in by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) makes it very clear that it has turned defunct and now playing emotional card, which had been its traditional tool.
In a statement issued here, today Balbir said it also reflects frustration among the PDP leadership, which is making efforts to regain faith of the people and the community, who were never dear to them, when in power.
Making a scathing attack on PDP’s president, Mehbooba Mufti for her recent statement that BJP is doing nothing for displaced Pandits, Balbir Ram said that how funny and strange it is that she was never so vocal for this community when her party was in power for many years. Her father was J&K Chief Minister twice and she also held the post for two years but displaced Pandits were not in policies, programmes and schemes of PDP. Now, out of power and struggling hard for comeback, suddenly the neglected community has become most dear to PDP, he added.
Balbir said that it was only BJP which provided moral support to thousands of Pandits, to come out of the pain and sorrow of being uprooted from own ancestral land and homes. Its cadre was on roads in Udhampur, Nagrota and Jammu, to receive the families coming from Kashmir and extend a moral support to them for their survival.
Kedar Nath Sahni, one of the tallest leaders of BJP and former Governor lives in the hearts of Pandit community even today for his active role in rehabilitation and well being of the large population of this community. The BJP-led and its supported governments in different states have provided reservation for professional and technical courses to the students of the community. Special employment package for them too has been revived by BJP which was abandoned by Congress-NC Government later, besides six thousand flats are under construction for the community employees in Valley, she reminded Mehbooba.