Sri Krishen Kaw
Jammu: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jammu and Kashmir unit, has expressed resentment over the All Party Meeting organized by the Opposition parties at Hotel Radisson Blue in Narwal area of Jammu on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference on the next day at its party headquarters at Trikuta Nagar, Jammu, BJP J&K unit president Ravinder Raina lashed out at the leaders of opposition political parties who participated in the meeting. Under the chairmanship of National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah, besides Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, JKPCC chief Vikar Rasool Wani, CPIM senior leader Mohd Yousuf Tarigami, Awami National Conference senior vice president Muzzafar Shah, Jammu and Kashmir Panthers Party President Harsh Dev Singh, and many others.
Raina, flanked by MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and senior BJP leader Dr. Nirmal Singh while addressing the media persons, said these leaders are going to stage a protest demonstration on October 10, which indicates that they feel hard to digest the phase of developments and progress under which Jammu and Kashmir is going on presently. They organize meetings and deliver discourses clearly mean that they are misleading the people and, nevertheless, they are plotting a conspiracy against the people of Jammu and Kashmir, Raina added.
Taking a dig at opposition parties, Raina asked that who were those political leaders and their parties which stood by for a boycott call to the Urban Local Bodies elections that were held in the year 2018, adding they are the leaders who do not want to let the people of J&K prosper and put it on the wheels of development and progress.
The annoyed BJP leader said on the sidelines of the proposed October 10 sit-in call in Jammu by the opposition political representatives to press the government for holding elections in J&K, Raina slammed National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party, Congress, and other political leaders. For the last seventy years, the Gujjar-Bakkerwal and Gaddi Sippi communities have been struggling for their rights and identity, but not a single leader among these political parties was seen staging a dharna anywhere in favor of these hapless communities, he added.
Jammu and Kashmir has gone through a tough and darkest phase of agony, destruction, and bloodshed as clouds of terrorism hovered over it for the longest period of time. The economy had come to a standstill due to hartals, stone pelting incidents, strikes, and what not. Once closure of schools had become a permanent feature in the valley. Now these opposition party leaders, Gupkar Alliance, the PAGD functionaries want to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of Jammu and Kashmir which has been established by paying a heavy price by the people. This development is going to be very hard to digest by them so they cannot see the new Jammu and Kashmir on the rails of progress, prosperity, and peace hence plot conspiracy against its people by organizing meetings here in Jammu to stage protests against the government, Raina alleged.
“I want to ask Dr. Farooq, Mehbooba Ji, and the leadership of Congress who have trouble with our efforts and sincere works, that when there were issues of west Pakistan refugees, Pahari community, and other people of J&K why Gupkar alliance failed to organize such meetings and proposed sit-ins in favor of the communities”, questioned Ravinder Raina but at the same time failed to ask any question about the well-being of the migrant Kashmiri Pandit community which has been living in exile now for the last 33 years in Jammu and other parts of the country.
Emphasizing on the efforts of BJP Government at the Centre under the stewardship of PM Narendra Modi and believing in Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Sabka Vishwas mantra Jammu and Kashmir has gradually come out of the darkest phase turmoil and witnesses the golden era of progress and prosperity for times to come, Raina maintained.