STATE TIMES NEWS
VIJAYPUR: Dubbing the ruling alliance as a surreptitious bondage of opportunist and diametrically opposed forces, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP and former Minister, described the nine month rule of the said coalition as a sordid tale of failures and betrayals. He said that the BJP and PDP combine with their insurmountable contradictions has created socio-political uncertainty in the State with ominous signs for the future of the State. He said that with both BJP and PDP pulling in different directions, this unholy alliance of heterogeneous ideologies had jeopardised the developmental initiative in the State adding that the political fevicol between the two partners will not be able to bond them for long. He was addressing a convention of party workers in Vijaypur organised by Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers and Ex-MLA Samba. Harsh lambasted in particular the BJP for its ideological retreat and cowardly surrender on majority of the issues pertaining to Jammu region to the utter disillusionment of Jammu people. He said that distrust of public had exacerbated as the BJP ministers were acting as mere ornamental pieces in the coalition and failing utterly to espouse the cause of their core constituency. He further said that Jammu people’s despair had translated into anger as the BJP had failed to allay the ingrained suspicion that the Saffron Party had sold its principles for power.
Rebuking the government for its total failure on the developmental front, Harsh said that the existing and on-going schemes had come to a grinding halt with the government failing to release even the wages and salaries of its employees including daily rated, casual , consolidated, contractual , adhoc, need based, ReTs besides other employees. He said that the only achievement of the government was ordering of whole sale transfers of employees in various government departments majority of them prematurely on monetary and other extraneous considerations.
Others who spoke on the occasion include Yash Paul Kundal, Shiv Charan, Gagan Pratap, Sarpanch (s) Charan Dass, Bishan Dutt, Pritam Chand, Durga Dass, Dhain Singh, Jawar Singh, Krishan Lal, Ramesh Singh, Jagdev Singh, Puran Chand, Retd. BDO Mohan Lal, Yash Paul Raju, Shiv Ram and Bhagwan Dass.
