Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: Congress and National Conference today jointly organized election campaign for Parliamentary by-elections of Anantanag and Srinagar Constituencies in migrant bastis of Gangyal and other adjoining areas in Jammu in which the leaders of two parties made a fervent appeal to migrant voters of the two constituencies to cast their votes in favour of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Ahmed Mir to strengthen secular forces in the State.
Senior vice president of Congress and former Minister Raman Bhalla, former MLC Vijay Bakaya, Anil Dhar, Hira Lal Pandita, chairman PCC Migrant Cell, MK Yogi, NN Pandita, Gulam Qadir Bhat, Shadi Lal Pandita addressed the meetings. The meeting at Gangyal was organized by Vinod Bhavani. The prominent citizens present on occasions include Satish Raina(Ex political advisor to CM), Bushan Lal(Ex MLC), ,Manmohan Choudhary( Gen Secretary JKPCC) Satish Sharma( Ex Corporator),Rattan Lal Mala, Jatin Bhat, Dr.Amina Sheikh, M.K Dhar, Bitu Raina, C.L Pandita.
Accusing BJP of having sold its every single slogan and its fundamentals for power, Raman Bhalla said it had proved that lust knew no bars, no red lines. With the PDP-BJP coalition government in the State tangled in controversies and policy paralysis creating pessimism in the State, 3.5 lakh displaced Kashmiri Pandits have lost hope of any concrete plan for their rehabilitation and resettlement in the Valley.
He said more than 2 years after assuming charge, coalition partners are silent on the promises made in ‘Agenda of the Alliance’, the guiding document which binds two ideologically different parties. Nearly 4,000 youth employed under a package announced by the Congress-led UPA government in 2008 was implemented by then Government led by Omar Abdullah between 2010 and 2012. The ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ had mentioned to take social and humanitarian initiatives to solve issue confronted by the community which migrated enmasse from the Valley after the eruption of insurgency in 1990, but no debate was initiated on how to take the first step in this direction.
Bakaya speaking on the occasion said that with the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir tangled in controversies and policy paralysis creating pessimism in the State, 3.5 lakh displaced Kashmiri Pandits have lost hope of any concrete plan for their rehabilitation and resettlement in the Valley. ‘Agenda of the Alliance’ had mentioned to take social and humanitarian initiatives to solve issue confronted the community which migrated en masse from the Valley after the eruption of insurgency in 1990, but no debate was initiated on how to take the first step in this direction.
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