Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 8: Winding up the tour of five Assembly constituencies of Kathua district with State president, Ravinder Raina , former MLAs Dr. Nirmal Singh , Rajeev Jasrotia, Kuldeep Kumar, Jeevan Lal and Chairman DDC Kathua Col (retd) Mahan Singh today, Dr Devinder Kumar Manyal, former Minister and general secretary BJP J&K said that the belief in Modi and BJP in the common masses in these areas where the party had won all the five seats has touched new heights.
Devinder Kumar Manyal said that during their four days tour of these constituencies, especially Bani Billawar and Basohli the response of the people was thunderous. A new era has begun in these far flung areas with huge network of roads and bridges which the people were demanding for the last 50 years, he added.
He said the roads under various Central and State schemes already stand completed and few are under progress. The locals said that this is the first time in their life that in such a short span of period they have seen huge development projects which were started and completed in a record time. The BRO road from Basohli to Bani is live example of this progress, they said.
Dr. Manyal said that there were only empty promises and fake slogans in the previous regimes and no development was seen in the last 70 years. At Bani, huge network of 15 PMGSY roads in the area has provided almost 100% connectivity to the far flung areas. He said that Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh has taken up a project of a tunnel between Bani and Bhaderwah which will hopefully be sanctioned this year.
The locals have put up a demand for a road between Billawar and Bani to be constructed by BRO which will provide a link between two assembly segments.
Demand for a new degree college for Macchedi was also put up by the youth which BJP president, Ravinder Raina said will be taken up with the Department.
Addressing workers at Billawar BJP president Ravinder Raina asked them to work for strengthening the party at grass root level. He asked the workers to work at booth level and strengthen the Mandal and booth.
Dr. Nirmal Singh, Col. Mahan Singh and district president, Jeevan Lal also addressed the workers.
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