Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla Monday asserted that the Jharkhand Assembly election results show that the people are rising above the ‘divisive politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party’. “This is a clear victory of the democratic process in the country. It is evident that the common people are realizing that they (BJP) are polarising the people of the country with divisive issues for their political benefits,” Bhalla said while interacting with the people in Gandhi Nagar. He said BJP wants to bank upon the divisive issues. Now the people are realizing that this is why they have given Congress more seats in the Assembly. “These people are not interested in addressing the issues of the common people, like unemployment, inflation, farmers’ distress, and economic slowdown. They are only interested in dividing people and diverting their attention to divisive issues,” he added. Former minister slammed the BJP-ruled Central Government and said it had “completely failed” on all fronts no matter which parameter was used to evaluate its performance. Interacting with people of Gandhi Nagar constituency here, Congress leader said there were five universally accepted benchmarks to evaluate any Government’s performance and the BJP Government failed in all of them. Hitting out at PDP-BJP Government for making life of people miserable due to incompetent policies and administrative inexperience, Bhalla today said that people of J&K are cursing this insensitive Govt on daily basis for ignoring them completely and making them suffer for everything. The mess created by Govt has resulted in total administrative failure in the Jammu division. Bhalla exhorted the cadre to strengthen democracy at the grass-root level and give a befitting reply to those opposed to the principles of powers to the people. He said the time has come to strengthen the ideology and principles followed by the Congress party and its great leaders for strengthening the secularism, socialism and inclusive democracy. PCC leader alleged that the BJP Government in Jammu and Kashmir had become a “non-performing liability” and said the administration must come out of deep slumber to infuse responsiveness and accountability in order to mitigate the sufferings of the people.
