Jammu, June 04: National Panthers Party (NPP) president and former minister Harsh Dev Singh on Sunday slammed the BJP government for doing the “greatest disservice” to J&K by demoting it to the level of Union Territory.
“It has humiliated the Dogras by dismantling the oldest Dogra state. The extension of several draconian laws after the abrogation of Art 370 including the opening of lands and jobs to outsiders had in particular, come as a rude shocker for the people of J&K,” he said while addressing a rally in Sudh Mahadev.
Singh said J&K had suffered socially, politically and economically after its re-organization and division into two Union Territories. “With J&K having been divested of its statehood status, the trade, tourism and economy of the erstwhile princely Dogra state of the country has been adversely impacted,” he said while addressing a rally in Sudh Mahadev.
Dev said, “While the economy fast dissipated and the development scenario witnessed a downward slide, the ever-growing unemployment seemed to be the only notable feature of the saffron rule. The past few years witnessed massive public uprisings against the anti-Jammu and anti-people policies of the ruling dispensation which continued to be suppressed through the iron fist of police and civil administration.”
“Rather than honouring the commitments made by it during last polls, the government was trying to crush the dissenting voices by causing dissensions in and breaking the opposition parties,” Singh said. He assured that NPP would stand with people through thick and thin and continue to expose and oppose the BJP for its “political debauchery and subterfuge”.
