UDHAMPUR: Chairman JKNPP and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh has said that BJP regime has humiliated Dogras by demoting J&K state to UT. “With J&K having been divested of its statehood status, the trade, tourism and economy of the erstwhile princely Dogra state of the country have been adversely impacted.
While the economy fast dissipated and development came to a grinding halt, the ever growing unemployment seemed to be the only notable feature of the saffron rule,” Harsh Dev said while addressing public meetings in Koi Nala, Sarar, Bup and Mantalai villages of Chenani constituency. The JKNPP chairman said the past few years witnessed massive public uprisings against the anti Jammu and anti people policies of the ruling dispensation which continued to be suppressed through iron fist of police and civil administration. Taking repeated somersaults on almost all its professed promises, the narcissistically pleased and power intoxicated BJP continued to use the coercive apparatus of state to silence all those who dared raise their voice for justice and sought fulfillment of promises made by it during elections, he rued.
“Rather than honouring the commitments made by it during elections, it was trying to crush the dissenting voices by causing dissensions in and breaking the opposition parties. Describing the BJP’s handling of dissent and disquiet as oppressively bizarre, undemocratic and morally sinister, Harsh Dev appealed the Party workers not to succumb before the Machiavellian designs of the power hungry politicians. He said that NPP leadership shall stand with its people through thick and thin and continue to expose and oppose the BJP for its political debauchery and subterfuge.
“The extension of several draconian laws after abrogation of Art 370 including opening of lands and jobs to outsiders had in particular, come as a rude shocker for the people of J&K,” the former Minister added.
