Srinagar, July 16: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Sunday lashed out at the National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for “inciting” the people of J&K over the issue of ‘land to landless’ which was recently announced by the Lieutenant Governor of J&K Manoj Sinha under the PMAY scheme.
The BJP leader in a statement said Lieutenant Governor had already clarified that no outsider will be settled under the pretext of the PMAY scheme which is solely meant for the J&K domicile who don’t have land to construct their shelters.
“Parties like NC and PDP have lost their ground, particularly after the abrogation of Article 370. They have been exposed before the public due to their doublespeak and injustice done in the past years with the people of J&K. Now whatever good is being done by the LG administration, it is disturbing for Muftis and Abdullahs who in one way or the other, try to incite the people here on baseless grounds,” he said.
Chugh said since NC, PDP and other parties governed the union territory; the poor and downtrodden sections of society “suffered immensely as their pleas failed to hit the deaf ears of these political parties”.
“NC and PDP have considered government assets of their own and were using it blatantly in their regimes. However, PM Narendra Modi’s corruption-free government took multiple pro-people and pro-poor steps and decided to allot 5 marlas of land to those landless people who don’t have even a shelter to reside inside,” he said.
“How shamelessly Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah are inciting people against baseless things. Those who gobbled hundreds and thousands of kanals of government land while being in power have no right to speak against the pro-people measure. Time has gone when such leaders were considering government assets untouchable by common people. This is PM Narendra Modi’s government whose objective is to rehabilitate and uplift the poor,” he added.
