Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 2: While the BJP Juggernaut is busy celebrating its ascendance to power in J&K, the beguiled common man in the streets of Jammu region feels utterly disappointed and betrayed at the surrender of the Saffron Party with regard to its core agenda so loudly trumpeted by it during the Parliament and Assembly elections, said Harshdev Singh, JKNPP chairman and former Minister.
He added that abrogation of Art 370 which was the most significant component of BJP’s ideological DNA has been contemptuously discarded in the deal brokered by the saffron party for the lust of power.
He that while CM Mufti Sayeed made categorical statements to highlight PDP’s core issues reiterating party’s agenda of resumption of Indo-Pak talks, dialogue with Hurriyat and other Separatists, gradual revocation of AFSPA and cross LoC trade etc., the Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh chose to keep mum and failed to make any statement in respect of the issues pertaining to Jammu region. Deputy CM could not even dare to react when Mufti Sayeed gave credit of peaceful elections in J&K to Pakistan, Hurriyat and the Separatists, he added.
He said while the PDP stuck to its guns and got its core agenda incorporated in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), the BJP exhibited utter lack of spine, failed to get its issues included in CMP thus blowing into smithereens all hopes and aspirations so anxiously nurtured by the people of Jammu region.
BJP was answerable to the people of country for its ideological retreat and a seismic shift from its core agenda, Singh stated.
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