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JAMMU: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla on Saturday said his party guarantees the rights of Jammu and Kashmir and will ensure it gets back the status of a full-fledged state.
This was stated by former Minister, Raman Bhalla, while addressing election meetings in RS Pura Wards 8, 9,10, Nari, Gagian, Miran Sahib, Sainik Colony and Greater Kailash. He said seven guarantees promised by the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections, would give new energy to the youth by filling one lakh government jobs.
He also highlighted the party’s promise of free treatment of Rs 25 lakh for every family and a super-specialty hospital in every district.
He said this will create a healthy society. Women, heads of families, will get financial protection of Rs 3,000 every month, he said.
He also highlighted the promise of food security for every member of the family with 11 kg grain.
“We will provide additional financial support of Rs 4,000 for landless, tenant, and land-owning farming households per year. We will also arrange 99-year leases to landless farmers cultivating state land,” Bhalla said.
Bhalla said a Rs 2,500 crore fund will be set up for all district-level irrigation projects to ensure 100 per cent irrigation for farmers in Jammu and Kashmir.
For the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, he promised an unemployment allowance of up to Rs 3,500 per month for one year to qualified youths.
He said the recent parliamentary elections have sent out a “very loud and clear” message that the premier role of Congress Party in any political set-up cannot be wished away.
He lauded the political sagacity of the people in lending their “wholehearted support” to Congress in the just concluded elections, which, he said, is amply reflected by the striking rate in the Jammu division. “A clear message has gone out that the next government in Jammu and Kashmir will be formed by Congress. This has unnerved all those who had written off the party because of their little political understanding and lack of connection with the people,” he added. The JKPCC leader described the recent vote to Congress as support for its politics of inclusiveness.
“The people have vehemently rejected the politics of divide, which they feel is detrimental to harmonious growth of a healthy society,” he said, adding, “The Congress believes in service to the people, irrespective of caste, creed or religion, as they were the real fountainhead of the power.”
He said that Congress shall not rest till state is restored and people are given their democratic rights.