Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 26: Appealing the people to strengthen and support Panthers Party, NPP chairman and former Minister Harshdev Singh today said that it was high time that Dogras identified and acknowledged the services of those who were actually championing the cause of Jammu.
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He said that NPP had vociferously projected the concerns of Jammu region and fought for safeguarding its interests at all possible forums to the entire satisfaction of its people. It was time to support and strengthen the party for the ultimate empowerment of the people of the Dogra land, Singh asserted.
He said that neither the national parties nor the Kashmir based parties were the solution for the ills afflicting Jammu region. A regional party alone could meet the aspirations of Jammu and address the local issues of the public, he said adding that people were increasingly reposing their faith in Panthers Party and its leadership. He appealed the people of Jammu to follow the nationwide trend wherein the people preferred regional parties an Assembly elections as they could better addresses the local concerns of the masses.
He was talking to media-persons here along with Kunwar Bali, the grandson of former minister Bodh Raj Bali, who joined NPP along with his supporters.
Accusing the BJP of having betrayed the collective sentiment of Dogras, Singh said that NPP was all prepared to provide a viable alter-native to the people of Jammu region. Those who failed to honour their promise of holiday on September, 23 birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh or even rake up the issue in Cabinet meeting while in power, could no longer be trusted by the people, said Singh.
“They had lost the right to represent the Dogras when they failed to get Rasana case probed through CBI and rather joined the chorus with their Kashmir masters describing the agitating Dogras as ‘rapists supporters’. Not only that they succumbed before the separatists and Kashmir centric forces by refusing Dogra certificate to Jammu Dogras despite the issue forming a part of their election manifesto, Singh added.
Kunwar Bali said that with peoples’ distrust having exacerbated in BJP and its State leadership in particular, the people were eagerly awaiting to give it a befitting reply in the coming days.
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