Udhampur, July 02: Accusing the BJP at the Centre and the Union Territory of having belied the hopes and aspirations of the people of J&K, National Panthers Party (NPP) president and former minister Harsh Dev Singh on Sunday said the time had come to “teach a lesson to those who betrayed the voters by false narrative and deceptive slogans”.
“While the slogans of ‘corruption free dispensation’ and ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ remained a distant mirage, the bold assertions of ‘Achhe Din’ have continued to remain mired in ambiguity,” Dev said in a statement, adding, “The saffron rule witnessed uncontrolled inflation, steep rise in petrol and diesel prices, ever-growing unemployment and demonetization which gave a stunning blow to the economy of the nation besides rattling the middle classes and lower income groups.”
While addressing public meetings in Chapper and Pachound villages of Latti tehsil, Singh said, “With pre-poll promises having transformed into post-poll somersaults, the disenchantment of the masses with the saffron party had become more pronounced with each passing day. The people were fed up with BJP’s deceptive politics and its false promises and were eagerly waiting for a change.”
“Not only did the BJP government fail on the governance front but the law and order situation deteriorated to an all-time low. The internal security became the biggest causality of the BJP rule with unprecedented death and destruction shaking people’s faith in the dispensation ruling the roost,” he said. “The frequent attacks on security forces, political persons and innocent civilians had belied the tall claims of the government and shall continue to haunt the people for years to come.”
He said the unemployment has assumed alarming proportions, and the educated unemployed youth have suffered most heavily under the BJP regime. While announcements for the creation of two crore jobs every year were made by the central BJP leaders, the delivery on the ground was inversely proportional to the articulation of the promise itself, he said, adding, “Not only the country faced large-scale retrenchments in the private sector but the governments failed to create and to fill up even the existing vacancies in the government sector,” he said.
The NPP president urged the people not to be misled by the “deceptive sloganeering” of the BJP, saying, “The past nine years of the saffron rule should serve as an eye-opener for them wherein the people have got nothing except false promises”.
