BJP Govt failed to fulfill promises made to people: Rattan Lal

Border battalions, 5 Marla plots were all lies, befooling tactics   

HIRANAGAR 18 May : Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President National Conference Jammu accused the BJP Government at the Centre of not fulfilling the promises it had made to people in the run-up to election.

The NC stalwart leader said this while addressing a workers meeting in Hiranagar on Thursday. The meeting was presided by Sham Narian Mehta District President Kathua Rural.

Raising the burning issues of border dwellers living along the IB and LoC, Rattan Lal said that starting from Lakhanpur to Uri in extreme north of the state, the people residing in border and Kandi belts are facing numerous problems but the BJP dispensation at the Centre and its proxy administration in J&K are doing nothing except rhetoric and showing dreams to the people with more and more promises made every day as if those sitting at helm will provide moon and stars to the people.  

Gupta said that people are lurching for basic amenities while the promises made regarding border battalions, 5 marla plots to border dwellers have turned out to be all lies. He said that the people of J&K have now understood well that BJP leadership has expertise in befooling public and telling lies, therefore it is the time for one and all in the UT to extend wholehearted support to NC leadership in the upcoming political contests viz Assembly polls, etc to bail out people from the morass created by BJP Government at the Centre. 

The senior NC leader said that farmers in J&K are also confronting number of problems especially in the Hiranagar belt due to new land laws enacted without consulting any of the stakeholders. He said that BJP government is running an authoritative dispensation in J&K with citizen rights under siege as common man is ignored on all fronts.  

“The summer has just begun and already the people are facing dearth of potable water and electricity with no answers coming from the people sitting at helm and despite out of proportion hikes in bills. The healthcare edifice is also in shambles with shortage of medicos in each healthcare facility without any exception, showing indifference of those manning these institutions”, Gupta said, adding that people should make up their mind to oust the incompetent dispensation both from J&K and the Centre and give a chance to NC to once again steer J&K and fulfill the aspirations of the people as it did in the past by taking along all the segments of the society and creating social harmony, which is missing these days under BJP regime, which is divisive by choice. He also said that farmers in the region are not getting hybrid seeds and there is acute shortage of fertilizers, making it difficult for the tiller community to get good yield of their crops as the dispensation is in slumber. 

The Provincial President asked people of the area to strengthen hands of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah to once again install a government which is people-centric and considerate towards the problems of the common man and not like BJP Government which is doing anything and everything for selected few in the country.

Among those who were present include: Pardeep Bali Provincial Secretary, Vijay Lochan P.P SC Cell, Abdul Gani Teli P.P OBC Cell, Sagar Chand Ex-MLA, Satpaul,B.D Sharma, Yashpaul, Sham Mehra, Jagjit Singh Adv, Raj Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Hari Singh, Ch. Karam Din Chopra, Ch. Rehmat and others. 

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