Jammu, Mar 19: National Conference Provincial President Jammu, Rattan Lal Gupta on Tuesday asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party is bound to face a “big shock” in the province as the INDIA bloc is all set to “decimate” the saffron party in all Lok Sabha seats in Jammu & Kashmir.
In a statement issued here, Gupta said the NC is “already on the saddle and leading the fight to restore all the fundamental and democratic rights of the people snatched away by the draconian Central dispensation in one way or the other”.
Forecasting a major setback for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the senior NC leader said that his party is at the central stage to ensure once again the restoration of democratic rights and the basic amenities to the people of the Jammu region. “The party in power at the Centre has created a dismal condition in its ten years misrule depriving one and all of living a life with dignity and pride,” he said.
“The situation is so critical that people had to knock on the doors of the Apex court to restore democracy in J&K by holding free and fair elections for the assembly,” he added.
Rattan Lal accused the J&K administration of sabotaging the process of conducting Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously in spite of the fact that almost all the political parties of Jammu and Kashmir categorically demanded the assembly election of J&K simultaneously with Lok Sabha elections when they met CEC at Srinagar on March 12, 2024.
He said NC is committed to protecting the land and jobs rights of J&K the people and in this pursuit, the party will go to any extent as its ideology is against any kind of compromise when it comes to the rights of the people. “Contrary to BJP leadership’s attempts to set wrong narratives alleging fissures in India Bloc constituents in J&K, the Lok Sabha contest shall be the INDIA bloc versus BJP, and the crushing defeat for the Saffron party is its fate this time,” he said.
Gupta, however, asked the NC cadre to act proactively at the grassroots level because it is the crucial phase ahead of LS polls and their hard work on the ground will help the INDIA bloc to achieve huge margins in the victory showing the opponents their right place.
