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JAMMU: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla on Tuesday said that Jammu and Kashmir lost their identity under BJP and appealed to the people to support Congress in the fight for the restoration of statehood.
“BJP regime has destroyed Jammu and Kashmir in various spheres, as it lost its identity, status, right over jobs, lands, opportunities of trade and transport and business besides whatsoever selections and recruitment were done in the UT, witnessed corruption and scams,” Bhalla said while addressing Block Meeting at Bhau Constituency organised by Block President Jatinder Singh Chib.
Bhalla said that people have exploited in the name of a bright future, control prices, and two crore jobs annually. But all their promises have fallen flat, except politics of hate and division, he said. He said that Jammu and Kashmir was a historical state with much better living conditions than most states in the country, but now it has been pushed into an atmosphere of political uncertainty.
Bhalla also said the more delay in restoring statehood was bound to cause more disconnect between Centre and JK People, who were feeling hurt after the Centre’s move to downgrade the historical and full-fledged State into two Union Territories without their consent, the Centre has to address that disconnect, at right earnest, keeping in view the urges and aspirations of the people.
Yogesh Sawhney in his address said that since BJP took over in 2014, the miseries of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have increased manifold. He said all the promises made to the people prior to the Assembly elections of 2014 remained unfulfilled. “More than eight years have passed, but they (BJP) failed to fulfill any of the promises, be it the problems faced by youth, problems of the farmers, or the problems of refugees and Kashmiri Pandits, this Government has done nothing to address those problems. The BJP can never come to power in J&K again,” he claimed.
