BJP indulging in empty rhetoric to gain power: Panthers Party

Udhampur, July 14: Former minister and State President JKNPP Harsh Dev Singh on Friday accused the BJP of having failed and floundered in honouring its commitments with the people of J&K ever since its ascendance to power at the Centre,
Addressing public meetings in the Chenani constituency, Harsh, according to a statement, said, “The saffron party was thriving merely on empty rhetoric and false propaganda. While it promised a job bonanza for educated youth post-Art 370 abrogation, it did exactly the opposite of what it had assured. It not only terminated several hundreds and thousands of youth working in various government departments but also put the existing government jobs to auction with the middlemen extorting huge money from prospective job seekers in the name of employment.”
“The lands of poor farmers are being forcibly retrieved and indigent rural masses are being forced to starvation. The health and educational institutions in rural areas are facing chronic deficiency of staff with a highly insensitive remote controlled regime averse to the woes of the common masses,” he said.
The NPP president said the BJP had proved to be a party of ‘Jumlas’ with a “complete mismatch” between its promises and delivery. “The BJP leadership exploited the gullibility of the innocent voters during all elections held in the past eight years, including those of Parliament, Assembly, BDC and DDC, without delivering anything on the ground,” he said.
He said the BJP was coming out with new slogans during each election only to conceal its “past failures and to enkindling false hopes amongst the poor indigent and deprived masses in order to fulfill its political ambitions”.
Pointing towards the local issues of the area, Singh called for the immediate opening of all roads closed due to landslides and early payment of compensation for houses, crops, orchards and other private structures damaged due to recent rains and floods. He sought the early construction of Salmay bridge and time-bound completion of Ghordi road that was languishing for the last over nine years and continued to remain in pathetic condition due to culpable negligence of the department and the executing agencies.