Jammu Tawi: Accusing the GoI for out rightly ignoring and neglecting the aspirations of Jammu region at All Party Meet held in New Delhi of late, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister said that BJP had stirred a hornet’s nest in the land of Dogras evoking feeling of alienation, embitterment and outrage. He rued that BJP’s appeasement politics of inviting Kashmir-centric and pro-separatists parties to the meeting and ignoring the Jammu based nationalist leaders descended like a thunderbolt from the blue. He was addressing public meetings in villages Chunti, lower Mada and Narsoo Nallah in Chenani constituency today.
Asserting that APM would pave way for further subjugation of Jammu region, Harsh Dev Singh said that PM Narendra Modi had given relevance to the Gupkar Alliance which was being termed as ‘Gupkar Gang’ by the BJP until now. He said after discrediting them following abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, the Centre is now treacherously doing business with them. He recalled that during the General elections in 2014 and 2019 besides Assembly elections in 2014, the people voted BJP to power with an overwhelming mandate in these elections. While the BJP MPs from Jammu region remained mute spectators in the Union capital in 7 years, the Saffron party with its 25 MLAs had compromised with the national and regional interests to empower Kashmir oriented ‘Agenda of Alliance’, Harsh added.
Referring to the olive branch extended to the Kashmiri leaders by the Prime Minister in New Delhi, he regretted that the slogans to end ‘Dilli ki Duri’ and ‘Dil ki Duri’ emanating out of the APM had conversely distanced and alienated Jammu region from Delhi. Appealing the people to get rid of the ‘compulsive obsessive disorder’ of supporting Central parties time and again, Harsh Dev Singh said that neither Congress nor BJP have proved their worth to fulfill the aspirations of the people of Jammu region.
