People eagerly waiting for polls to teach lesson to BJP: Bhalla

KATHUA, July 01: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla today said that the people are waiting eagerly to teach a lesson to the BJP for allegedly failing to fulfill the promises made before coming to power at the Centre and in J&K.Bhalla said this while interacting with prominent people of Block Nagri village Chamba Dha Bhah Panchayat Bajwal, Kathua constituency. Prominent among those present on the occasion include  Block President Subash Chander, Sat Pal Bhandari, Rajneesh Basotra, Tersham Pal Shani, Ravinder Pal Singh, Paramjeet Singh Pamma, Vikas Sharma, Balbir Singh Choudhary Kuldeep Singh Manga besides others.He said that people should elect those who will ensure that their voice is heard.  People of J&K want a credible voice to represent their aspirations and Congress is the only credible voice of all the regions of J&K,” he added.

“The people of J&K remember BJP for unleashing countless miseries on the State and its people. People still recount the numerous instances of BJP and its leaders committed from time to time. The treacherous role played by the BJP and its leadership is an open secret,” he said, adding, now the responsibility rests on people to choose between forces inimical to State’s integrity and those who have lent immense sacrifices for the protection of the State’s communal harmony and brotherhood.

“Now it is up to people to discern between the ones who stand for their rights and who trampled them. However, people have made it a point to show such forces as are inimical to State they’re the right to place. In the end, it is the people whose resolve will prevail,” he said. Every vote matters and every vote should be polled in favour of Congress, for ours is the only party that has never compromised with regard to equitable development of all regions of State.

Claiming that people were “disturbed over the change in BJP’s attitude after getting a clear mandate,” the JKPCC Working-President said that the public would teach a lesson to the BJP in J&K Assembly elections due later this year. It will lick dust in the coming J&K assembly polls,” Bhalla said.He said that people of Jammu and Kashmir are also eagerly awaiting for the next available opportunity to teach BJP and its allies a lesson for letting them down and not fulfilling promises made to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.Bhalla claimed that people are yearning for a change and want riddance from the BJP’s “misrule.”

Bhalla gave a clarion call to the people to prepare themselves for giving a befitting reply to the “divisive” forces led by BJP as the opportunity would arise in the coming Assembly elections.He appealed to the young brigade to come forward for a better change in the JKUT. He said Congress is duty bound to empower every section of the UT equally, especially the youth, who hold the key to development and can change the direction, for which they need to rise to the occasion to show the power of their vote in the future elections.Expressing hope, JKPCC Working- president Raman Bhalla claimed that Congress Party will form next Government in Jammu and Kashmir.

The former Minister said first time rule under BJP proved to be worse of its kind where the common masses were suffering and ruling class enjoyed royal lifestyle.”They never care for Jammu where from they got their votes. The people who voted them to power faced frequent power cuts, lack of drinking water supply, price rise of essential commodities, failed to deal with Pakistan on borders, due to which many soldiers got martyred in absence of strong foreign policy,” he alleged. He said that BJP has brought Jammu and Kashmir at a stage with one region is stood against other.

Bhalla said it was Congress Government which always kept all three regions united as one unit. There was equal share in development and employment without any disparity,” he said, while praising the people friendly policy of the previous Congress Government.Bhalla hoped that the Congress is first choice of people of Jammu and Kashmir and there is a strong need to work on ground to strengthen the party so that next Government will be formed by the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir.  He said Congress will continue to fight anti- people policies of the Centre and LG’s Administration in J&K UT, besides defeating the challenges faced on various fronts especially, misleading politics of BJP.

“Party is supreme and every worker is bound to further strengthen it at grass roots level and serve people as Congress has the legacy of serving and strengthening the people,” Bhalla said.He said bureaucratic rule has never been alternative to democratically elected Government. He said that Congress is only political force in the country consistently playing role of healthy opposition in the country.

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