STATE TIMES NEWS
Vijaypur: Former Minister and JKPCC General Secretary Manjit Singh on Friday criticised the ruling coalition of PDP-BJP in Jammu and Kashmir terming it an alliance of contradictions.
The senior Congress leader was speaking before the party workers here in Vijaypur during monthly meeting. While listening to the grievances of the party workers, Manjit Singh said that the Congress Party has been gaining ground in Jammu and Kashmir as well as across the State with the false agenda of the Coalition Government in the State exposed.
Singh said that both the parties have quit different ideologies and their differences have come to fore several times on many occasions. The BJP has been exposed in Jammu with its false propagandas. “There is no development. Instead, the schools which were opened during the regime of Congress are being closed by the Education Department and from these schools, the students are being sent to other schools,” said Manjit Singh.
Singh said the building which were constructed by the government after investing huge amounts has been locked. “These structures are of no use now. The BJP Coalition Government has deprived poor people from taking education at their door step,” he alleged, while informing that they will not allow this to happen and instead launch agitation against the wrong and anti-people policies of the government.
Not only the Education Department, he said, the government employees in many departments are without salaries, ReT teachers have been protesting against the screening test, SPOs, Anganwari workers and daily wagers in PHE have not been regularised.
He said that the ReT teachers are being harassed in the name of screening test after five to six or more years of their service in the Education Department.
The ReTs have helped in educating poor society and remote villages of the State. The government should not have harassed them and instead, taken some other steps for the improvement in the teaching and learning skills, he added.
Such skills can be provided with the help of courses by the Education Department but they preferred to close schools in villages and remote areas and ignored the poor people who are unable to send their kids for education in the schools at long distance from their respective houses, he further maintained.
The PoK displaced persons and West Pakistani Refugees have also been befooled by the government especially by the BJP who always claimed to be the champion of Jammu.
“Jammu under BJP Government has suffered adversely. Their false allegations and promises have exposed them before the people. They are only misleading the people with propagandas,” he alleged. The senior Congress leader said that the refugees were earlier assured of huge economic package but when the PM Modi made announcement they were given micro amount.
“The Congress alliance in Jammu and Kashmir had given proposal for huge economic package for the refugees and it was accepted by then UPA-II Government before the parliamentary elections but present BJP Government has turned blind eyes towards the refugees and their suffering,” alleged Manjit Singh former Minister.
