BJP shared intertwined legacy with JK, Modi reinforced it: Dr Jitendra

Kathua, Jan 23 : Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Monday said thatBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shared an intertwined legacy with Jammu & Kashmir while Prime Minister Narendra Modi reinforced it by correcting the anomalies of the past and shifting the focus to development.
He said, Jammu & Kashmir, along with Himalayan States like Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, is going to be a major contributor to India’s future economy.
Addressing the BJP Working Committee meeting at Kathua Dr Singh said, while the resources of western States have been utilized to a great extent in the past decades, it is Prime Minister Modi who has turned to the Himalayan resources of J&K and neighbouring regions.
Recalling the close relationship which the BJP and erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh have shared with JK, Dr Jitendra Singh said, it was in district Kathua where the founder President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was arrested by deceit before he passed away in Srinagar over a month later under suspicious circumstances.
“Thus the first flame of struggle for nationalism was ignited from here which the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and later BJP carried forward for over the next half of century,” he said.
Most of the of the welfare and youth-centric schemes rolled out by Prime Minister Modi, said Dr Jitendra Singh, are the ones with which the BJP Karyakartas can get associated by way of promoting them and ensuring that they reach the right kind of people for whom they have been planned.
He suggested that Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and Mahila Morcha can prepare a calendar of programmes to reach out to people with schemes like Ujjwala Yojana, Mudra Yojana, PM Awas Yojana, etc.
Describing the current year of 2023 as being of special importance for India, Dr Jitendra Singh said this is the year when India hosts G20, when on India’s proposal the world is observing International Year of Millets and when India’s economy has overtaken UK and India’s StartUp ecosystem has been rated third in the world.