Bhalla accuses BJP of misusing power to suppress opp voices

Samba, Apr 23: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Working President and party’s contesting candidate from the Jammu-Reasi Parliamentary seat Raman Bhalla on Tuesday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of engaging in vote bank politics and misusing money and muscle power to suppress the voice of opposition in country.
Addressing election gatherings and roadshows at various places in Samba district, the former minister alleged that the BJP never worked for the interest of the people of the region. He exhorted them to “wipe out” the party in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in J&K.
“Support Congress, I promise to provide you everything in one year which BJP did not even in 10 years,” he said while promising to ensure a stable, transparent and people-friendly government at the Centre as well as in J&K. “I appeal to the youths to fulfill the dream of the Father of the Nation by discarding BJP and bringing their own Congress to power both at the Centre and the state,” he quipped.
Bhalla said that as long as employment and economic opportunities are not created, the youth will continue to feel dejected. “We have a substantial youth population and we need to tap their energy positively for the growth of the country,” he said.
The JKPCC leader said he would continue to stand for the legal and genuine rights of the people of the Union territory. “Our agenda is pro-people and we will ensure the people of Jammu and Kashmir are empowered with socioeconomic rights,” he said, adding, “We all know that the whole of J&K was overlooked by BJP government. The region has an immense economic crisis with poor job opportunities for the local educated youth. I know its potential and challenges,” he said.
Bhalla said policies and programmes of the BJP government have failed to target the last person in the queue in terms of service delivery and livelihood avenues. “Government failed to speed up infrastructure development and strengthen the mechanism to provide basic amenities to all for improving the livelihood. In the absence of an elected government, people have no medium to get their grievances addressed. So, every person here is frustrated,” he said.
The Congress leader added, “I see no way of achieving anything in J&K without a lasting unity between different sections of our society. Unity in diversity must be our creed to last for all time and under all circumstances, otherwise, there is no end in sight to our common problems in the shape of poverty, unemployment, and under-development. Our mutual discord will make our descent into darkness. Divided we cannot achieve anything, let alone get back our abridged constitutional and democratic rights.”