Jammu, Dec 29: Former Minister and Chairman AAP (J&K) Harsh Dev Singh Thursday criticized the present dispensation for its failure to curb militancy and cross border terror being exported to J&K from across the border by the hostile neighbor.
While addressing a press conference in Jammu, Singh said that mere condemnation of Pakistan could no longer satisfy the people of erstwhile state. “It was shocking that a hitherto peaceful Jammu region had also become vulnerable during BJPs proxy rule in the UT”. He said not only was yesterday’s incident at Sidhra Jammu an eye opener for the government and security agencies but the earlier militant attacks in Udhampur, Katra, Rajouri and elsewhere in Jammu province had punctured the tall claims of helmsman of having restored normalcy in the UT.
Holding the BJP regime responsible for the present crisis in J&K, Harsh Dev said that its imprudence and flawed policies had resulted in unabated bloodshed and mayhem claiming precious lives of innocents as well as security personnel. He said that militancy had almost died down in J&K during the popular governments but the reckless experimentation of the present rulers resulted in gradual deterioration of the security scenario creating early 90’s situation in the erstwhile state.
Accusing the BJP government of deflecting the blame on Pakistan every day and for every act of violence, Singh questioned the focus of the BJP for continuing in power. “You can’t abdicate your responsibility by merely cursing Pakistan. It is your primary duty and constitutional obligation to protect the lives of the citizens on which count you have miserably failed”, asserted Mr. Singh.
Charging the BJP government with treating J&K as a workshop and conducting weird experimentation over it during the last few years, the AAP leader said such a flawed approach of the centre had led to massive complications with an all-round disenchantment prevailing in the new UT as a consequence thereof. What was the rationale in breaking the oldest state and converting it into UTs?, questioned Mr. Singh. “The entire focus of the BJP govt is on its political expansion deliriously oblivious of the growing tensions and escalation in militancy in the UT. And while the killings of innocents has become a routine affair in J&K, the BJP leadership continues to harp on formation of govt in J&K and winning 50 seats therein without uttering a word to save the erstwhile state from death and destruction”.
