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JAMMU: Hitting out at ruling PDP-BJP Coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress on Wednesday said the government has failed on many fronts even after completing more than three years as it was marred with controversies.
“The PDP-BJP Government has failed to take off even after a considerable time as it has created lots of controversies and hatred between different regions and sections of the State in view of their contradictory and narrow politics,” said former Minister and senior Congress leader, Raman Bhalla while addressing party workers as a part of his ongoing campaign to listen to the grievances of people of Gandhi Nagar Constituency.
Bhalla said that the coalition partners not only found it difficult so far in their tenure to reduce the trust deficit between them due to ideological differences but the controversies, courted by them, also had a negative impact on governance and public delivery.
“It became difficult for them to make a head start to meet the political and regional aspirations of the people,” he said and strongly criticised PDP-BJP Government for depriving about 45 lakh people of the State of their monthly sugar quota by raising rates of sugar by 85 per cent from Rs 13.50 to Rs 25 per kg for BPL families.
“The present government is hell bent to keep ration beyond the reach of poor people whom they exploited during elections by making false slogans like food for all and poverty for none,” he said.
Bhalla questioned the BJP for its failure to address the aspirations of people of Jammu region, as the party always accused the State and Central Governments for not giving the due treatment to Jammu.
