Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: A delegation of senior BJP leaders led by former Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader, Kavinder Gupta today met Shantanu Thakur, Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and discussed several issues regarding development scenario in Jammu and Kashmir.
Shantanu Thakur has arrived Jammu to visit Samba District tomorrow morning under the Public Outreach programme to take stock of public issues as well as development programmes.
The deputation comprised of senior BJP leaders Sat Sharma, Chander Mohan Gupta, Surjit Singh Slathia, Sham Lal Sharma, Ajay Bharti, Veenu Khanna, Purnima Sharma, Arvind Gupta, Munish Khajuria, Naresh Singh, Karan Sharma, Rajesh Gupta, Ajay Manhas and Ashok Kumar.
The BJP leaders from the UT apprised Shantanu Thakur about the issues being faced by border dwellers and MGNREGA workers. They also apprised Shantanu Thakur about the vast scope of religious tourism in the Samba district where two major shrines Utterbehni and Purmandal are located and visited by people from across the country. They also laid stress for proper development of both the shrines as due to lack of vision of successive Governments headed by NC and Congress the Jammu region was always discriminated.
The former Deputy Chief Minister apprised the Union Minister of the pace of works on different development projects including the Smart Cities project, Railways and Highways’ progress, civic edifice besides implementation of central welfare schemes and the feedback of masses.
“The scrapping of Article 370 has been seen as removal of major hurdle in the development and now the people are expecting colossal development in the UT with services and facilities reaching at their doorsteps,” Kavinder said, adding that all eyes in J&K are on Central dispensation to relieve them from the morass of decades together because in PM Narendra Modi’s personality they see a saviour and well wisher.
Kavinder said that the Public Outreach Programme series has given much to the people and they always expect more from it. He said that this programme has been acting as a bridge between the people of J&K and the Central Government, as all their aspirations and demands reach out to concerned quarters at the Centre without any risk of middlemen altering the same as the Union Ministers are the main stakeholders. He said that people are happy with this endeavour and wanted this to continue in the times to come.
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