Jammu, Apr 08: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Working President Raman Bhalla on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “misleading” the people of J&K, saying the party had wooed the people with promises and sops but after assuming power, they have forgotten them.
Interacting with the people of RS Pura Jammu South and Suchetgarh constituencies, Bhalla alleged that the BJP was misleading the people of J&K with fake narratives.
Speaking on the occasion, He said, “The people have recognized the real face of the BJP and are not going to buy their arguments this time. People have been left high and dry while the BJP is still selling dreams.”
He asked people to corner BJP leaders visiting their areas and ask them pointed questions like who was responsible for the “pathetic” conditions prevailing in villages and towns and what had happened to the lofty promises they had made to the public. “Make these people accountable and seek clear answers from them,” he said.
The Congress leader said Jammu and Kashmir is virtually at the crossroads of its history as the BJP kept personal interests above the larger interest of the people on every issue. “The failed BJP experience has posed a big challenge for Congress to restore peoples’ faith in a parliamentary democracy that has been hugely eroded by the saffron party,” he said.
“The emotive, divisive, communal and regional politics played by the BJP has bruised the psyche of the people, who have been pushed to worse kind of polarization. There is a need for bridging the gap, which alone can be done by Congress, which believes in regional unity and communal amity,” he said and urged the gatherings to vote and support Congress to gear up grassroots units to fill the political vacuum.
The JKPCC leader exhorted the party cadre to be positive role models for democracy, saying they are supposed to be the “inheritors of a mass movement which has stood the test of times during most turbulent times”. He referred to the major turnaround achieved by the government led by Congress claiming that the party has immensely contributed to putting the regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh on the tracks of development by dispensing transparent and accountable governance.
Bhalla recalled how successive Congress governments worked tirelessly for the development of Jammu and the entire region soon after taking over the reins of the State. “The Congress gave the City of Temples the concrete Tawi Bridge, medical college, the circular road and much more despite the financial crunch and by cutting food subsidies. The successive Congress governments carried forward this mission and put the state, especially Jammu on the odyssey of development and progress,” he said.
