Declares BJP’s historic rise in Jammu
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JAMMU: Maintaining that time is ripe to have a Dogra Hindu Chief Minister from Jammu for the first time in the history of Jammu Kashmir, senior BJP leader and party nominee for Jammu North constituency, Sham Lal Sharma on Thursday said that Jammu people have made up their mind and giving clear verdict to BJP in the current elections to form its exclusive Government. Addressing a series of public meetings at various locations in Akhnoor and Jammu North constituency here, Sham said that there is a strong wave of BJP in Jammu Kashmir, especially in Jammu region and peoples’ jubilant mood clearly indicates that BJP is sweeping in Jammu region and forming its Government with a Dogra Hindu Chief Minister. It was a decades old dream of Jammuties to have a Hindu Chief Minister from this region, and now it is an appropriate time to fulfil this dream in reality, Sham asserted.
Calling Congress, NC and PDP as power hungry parties, Sham said that these three parties always misused the powers and cheated the people with their wrong policies. They discriminated against the Jammu people in all fields, deprived them from development and other basic rights. Jammu people always remained at the mercy of Kashmiri leadership which treated people of this region as second class citizens. Now after the abrogation of Article-370, the entire scenario has been changed and domination of valley based polity will not be acceptable any more. People of Jammu have suffered badly for want of improved basic facilities like education, health, road, power, tourism and drinking water infrastructure even after seven decades of independence, but now the time has come to re-write history by electing a Chief Minister from Jammu, Sham noted. Holding Congress and National Conference (NC) fully responsible for spreading militancy and uncertainty in Jammu Kashmir, he said that due to poor governance, anti-people and anti-India policies of these two parties, the situation went out of control resulting in deaths of thousands of innocent people, including security forces during the past over three decades. Both these parties promoted communalism, nepotism and dynasty traditions which created restless among the people. Their anti-people policies proved fatal and gave birth to separatism and militancy in Jammu Kashmir which caused destruction and lawlessness.
Now, when the peace is prevailing gradually in Jammu and Kashmir with the serious efforts of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his team in Centre Government, both these parties are again trying to come to power to bring back in the era of gun culture, stone pelting, hartals, bomb blasts, encounters and curfew, which the BJP will not allow to retune in any cost, he maintained. He appealed to the people to reject Congress, NC and PDP in the current elections and support BJP wholeheartedly to form its next government for restoration of complete peace, tranquillity, holistic development and strengthening the democracy at the grass root level.
In a significant development, Congress leader Surinder Singh Bandral joined the BJP along with his supporters. He pledged to serve the party with extreme zeal and dedication to make it stronger at the grass root level. Sham Lal Sharma welcomed Bandral and his supporters and hoped that the party would become stronger with their joining.
