Jammu, Aug 22: Aam Aadmi Party J&K on Tuesday urged the people of Jammu & Kashmir not to get misled by the “emotive and deceptive slogans” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
According to a press release, a meeting of senior AAP leaders was held at Ward No.23, Nai Basti, Gandhi Nagar, here to discuss the party’s preparedness in view of the Municipal and Panchayat elections in J&K and also the ensuing general elections in the UT.
On the occasion, the AAP leaders Farooq Ahmed Banday, Nirmal Mahana, Kuldeep Kumar Rao and Amit Langer said, “The promise of providing 2 crore jobs annually to the youths of the country in 2014 and 50,000 jobs to the youths of J&K after abrogation of Article 370 still haunts the minds of young people here, which never saw the light of the day.”
They said the youth are crossing the age limit or nearing the same without any hope of ‘Achhe Din’. The previous leaders of the successive state governments are squarely responsible for the present mess who without any planning and application of mind adjusted the youth simply to create vote banks and appease their kith & kin, they said.
The AAP leaders alleged, “On one hand, the BJP is arresting political opponents on fake corruption charges while they themselves are on an MLA purchasing spree. Hard-earned public money is being misused to quench BJP’s thirst for power. The BJP-led government has been completely exposed because of white lies, corruption, unemployment, unprecedented price rise of LPG, diesel, petrol, fertilizers, edible oil, pulses, hike in transport charges, etc.”
The people are fed up with them and badly see an alternative in the AAP because of the party’s “magical pro-poor, pro-workers, labourers and pro-people policies” in Delhi and Punjab.
“Enough is enough now,” they said, adding, “All the people cannot be befooled for all the time as the people have seen through the game of polarisation, of all traditional political parties – the so-called savior of Hindus and Muslims.”
The leaders appealed to the people to “rise above the politics of religion and region in the larger interest of integration of the country and see through the game of divisive politics as well as divide & rule policy of the ruling dispensation as also the previous political parties who ruled the country as well as J&K”.
“The country has to run on the foothold of its Constitution which teaches us to give regard to its religious sects on all costs,” they maintained, adding, “Frenzy of casteism, polarisation in the name of religion will harm us than doing any good.”
