Jammu, May 26: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Working President Raman Bhalla, who contested from the Jammu-Reasi Parliamentary seat, on Sunday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre, asking “why there is no prosperity in the lives of people if the country’s economy is growing at a rapid pace”.
Attending a programme to facilitate booth agents from Badyal Brahamana, Bhalla accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of speaking lies and making hollow promises to the public only to “capture” power.
Attacking the BJP government, he said, “70 crore youth are unemployed in the country and unemployment is the highest in 45 years. 30 lakh posts are vacant in the government sector under the Modi regime. BJP makes big claims that the economy is growing at a rapid pace. I want to ask if it is growing so fast then and if there is progress in the country then why there is no progress in people’s lives? Why did our children not get employment?”
Bhalla accused the Saffron party of not respecting the public at all. “They do not speak about your problems. They do not tell what they are doing to contain inflation and bring down unemployment,” he said. “It is only the Congress which speaks about the public, he asserted.
“The BJP-led NDA will be voted out of power in the elections,” the Congress leader predicted.
He said everybody needs to come forward and be at the forefront in the “fight to save the Constitution, democracy and freedom” in the country.
Bhalla said the ruling government has “miserably failed” to stand to the expectations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir despite getting a mandate for two consecutive terms.
“BJP has befooled the people with its hollow promises before the elections and now the people of Jammu and Kashmir have realised that they have been totally betrayed by the party,” he said, adding, “Congress is the party of poor, weaker sections, farmers and underprivileged sections of society which always stood for their rights and cause. People have by now understood well that no other party can ensure their welfare like Congress and therefore its wave is being witnessed across Jammu and Kashmir leading to restlessness among its opponents.”
