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JAMMU: Taking a dig at BJP, former Minister and Additional General Secretary JKNC, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra today said that party had betrayed the people of Jammu and Kashmir by making tall claims and promising them “Acchhe Din” under their rule but, they ruined everything and now people are feeling suffocated under the present regime.
Sadhotra said this while addressing a public meeting organized by JKNC Central Zone at Janipur. The meeting was presided over by former minister and president, JKNC Central Zone, Babu Rampaul.
The meeting was organized by Dr Vikas Sharma, Zonal Secretary and Coordinator Jammu District (Jammu) and Rajinder Kumar.
“BJP made several promises with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and gave them a dream of a golden era. They promised jobs, development, corruption free governance and many more things. The innocent people trusted the words of BJP leadership and given huge mandate with a hope of turnaround in their life. But now their tall claims stand exposed,” Sadhotra said.
Now, people have realized that it was nothing but a gimmick of BJP to grab power, he said and added that BJP was making policies and programmes only to help the rich and affluent people gain more and more wealth, and poor and downtrodden were being made resourceless.
He said, “BJP indulged in just “Jumlebaazi” to befool the masses for political gains but in reality this party has nothing to do with the poor masses.Come elections and the BJP starts making “Jumlebaazi” to divert the attention of nation from important issues related to the poor masses.” BJP snatched the statehood of Jammu & Kashmir and promised its people a golden era but now everything stands exposed, he said.
Speaking on Women Reservation Bill, he said, this too was a political gimmick to garner the votes of women. “If BJP was really serious on granting political reservation to women in it would have implemented the same with immediate effect but they imposed several conditions which makes it impossible for Reservation Women to become reality before 2029.
He reminded people of the National Conference era when Sher-e-Kashmir introduced historic Land Reforms Act and gave land to landless and made them owners of the land which they only used till. “The successive NC governments in J&K took several measures for the upliftment of masses and never made them feel alone but the present dispensation has let loose a reign of terror by imposing a series of taxes and other restrictions on people,” he said.
Sadhotra urged the people to strengthen the hands of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Jenab Omar Abdullah so that NC could once again form a popular government in J&K and mitigate the sufferings of poor masses.
Speaking on the occasion, Babu Rampaul severely criticized the present dispensation and said that BJP robbed everything from people of J&K. Post August 5, 2019, the rights and resources of people have been snatched and they have been left on the mercy of god.
BJP snatched statehood from people of J&K and deprived them of elected government and now we are being subjected to heavy taxation in different forms, he said and added that nobody listens to the people and they are made subservient to bureaucrats.
Former minister urged people to teach BJP a lesson in the forthcoming Local Body elections and strengthen NC which is their own time tested party. “People are coming forward and joining NC in large numbers as they are fed up with divisive and misguiding policies of the BJP. We are getting a huge response from the grass-root level and confident that NC will form the next government in J&K,” Rampaul said.