JAMMU: Alleging that BJP’s betrayal has assumed monstrous proportions, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and former Minister on Tuesday reiterated his call to the people of Jammu region to get united in furtherance of the cause of the Dogra Land. He said that the recent developments had created a lot of commotion with people of Jammu region feeling the heat of the statements of Chief Minister who had categorically declined to give AIIMS to Jammu region besides terming the Artificial Lake project as non-feasible.
Harsh was addressing the gathering in Jammu during the daylong Dharna organised by Panthers Party in protest against the perpetuation of bias and discriminatory policies of the BJP-PDP coalition against Jammu region.
Harsh said that BJP had inflicted a big dent upon Dogra pride by cowardly surrendering on all its pre poll slogans and its solemn pledges made to the people of Jammu. He said that Jammu people who were expecting something igneous and explosive from the Saffron Party were utterly disillusioned with the ice cold BJP leadership who behaved as statues in the Press Conference of the Chief Minister.
Strongly condemning the highly incongruous and contradictory statements being made not only by the alliance partners but also by the separate BJP Ministers, Harsh admonished the BJP leadership for attempting to mislead and confuse the people of Jammu. He said that BJP leaders had made a mockery of themselves by taking different stands at different locations to suit different situations. Cautioning the BJP Ministers and legislators to refrain from surrendering on the issue of AIIMS by holding assurances of another AIIMS like institute for Jammu, Singh said that any such pusillanimity on its part would face stiff resistance from the people of Jammu region.
Balwant Singh Mankotia State President warned to launch a full scale agitation against the Coalition Government in case the AIIMS project was transferred to Kashmir. He said if the PDP was making unilateral decisions on various issues concerning the people and not consulting the BJP, the latter should pull out of the government. He said that in no case would the people of Jammu allow the shifting of AIIMS to Kashmir or shelving of the Artificial Lake project in Jammu.
Among others who spoke on the occasion included Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers, Rajesh Padgotra, Pushvinder Singh Manhas, Sham Gorkha, Yash Paul Singh Manhas, Neeraj Gupta, Ashok Randhawa, Karnail Singh, Anil Rakwal, Asha Rani, Purshotam Parihar, Deep Kumar Gupta, Shanker Singh, Makhan Lal, Charan Dass, Khajoor Singh, Prem Nath, Paramjit Singh Marshal, Bhagwan Singh and Amandeep Singh.