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| BJP has not compromised on ideology: Ram Madhav | | DrJitendra blames State Govt for ignoring flood warnings | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 14: Maintaining that the Party has not changed its stand on its ideology,BJP today said that its stand on certain ideological issues dear toParty will be known only after the poll manifesto for the elections in
the State is issued.
This was stated by BJP national general secretary, Ram Madhav while talking to media persons here today along with Minister in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh and BJP state president and MP Jugal Kishore Sharma.
Replying a volley of questions including Party's stand of Article 370 especially after a controversial statement was issued by its candidate from Amira Kadal Srinagar, Dr Heena Bhat, Madhav said that Artice 370 is an issue for the Party but there are many more issues including corruption free Government, good governance, development and end to dynastic rule which needed immediate attention.
He said Party's stand on its ideology will come to know after the release of poll manifesto and added that it has not compromised on its ideology. Madhav also denied that BJP has changed its stand on various issues and has joined the hands with separatists which became evident after the recent meeting of Sajjad Gani Lone supreme of J&K People's Conference with Prime Minister Narendera Modi. He said that Party will never join hands with separatists and its stand is known to entire world on this issue.
However it will provide all help and encouragement to those people who join national mainstream. He said BJP has appealed the people in Valley to leave gun and join national mainstream and it sticks to that. The BJP leader said that there is a difference between separatists and those contesting elections under Indian Constitution while referring to PM- Lone meeting.
``If any body wants to come closer and work in coordination with BJP in rebuilding the State to bring it out of present mess'', he added. During the press Conference Union Minister Jitendra Singh alleged that Jammu and Kashmir authorities had ignored the warnings by the Metereological department about floods, which ravaged the Kashmir Valley, particularly the Srinagar City.
He said Centre had issued similar flood warnings to the governments ofUttrakhand and Jammu and Kashmir to undertake measures in this regard. While Uttrakhand government responded to flood warnings, J&K ignored it, he added. "Nobody (in J&K) bothered when water level crossed the danger mark (despite issuance of several Met department warnings) and Srinagar sunk," he said. I personally monitored the situation at the Met office and was instrumental in sending alerts to J&K government under my own supervision about abnormally high rainfall hitting Pirpanchal in south and central Kashmir, he said, adding the government remained in deep slumber even when the flashfloods wreaked havoc in districts of Jammu region and Kashmir valley.
The Union Minister released a two-page chargesheet against Jammu and Kashmir government for its failure to take call on floods to save hundreds of lives and damage caused to infrastructure.
He also questioned the preparedness on part of Omar government to save J&K from flood fury. The charge sheet mentioned that Met office warnings and alerts were sent to Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Chief Engineer Mechanical Division, Flood Control and other officials on September 2, 3 (twice in the day), 4, 5 and 6 before the floods inundated Srinagar summer capital. "We went beyond our duty to warn J&K government that continuous rains could trigger major floods and landslides, disrupt road and air transport but these warnings were not further furnished by these departments to the general public," he said.
Charging Jammu and Kashmir government over the issue, he said no alerts were sounded by its flood control department or respective Deputy Commmissioners of Srinagar and Anantnag district about the magnitude of the water that was approaching Srinagar city. Government's unpreparedness despite the Met warnings could be gauged from the fact that some of its ministers and bureaucrats got trapped in the floods and were battling for survival, he said. Instead, allegations were being levelled on the Central government inspite of us going beyond our mandate, Singh said. Replying to a question about Rs 44,000 crore package submitted to the Centre by the state government, he said, "state came with its own survey figure of Rs 44,000 crore". Questioning the way survey was conducted by the state government to arrive at a figure of Rs 44,000 crore, he said, we had asked the state government about the parameter adopted to arrive at such a figure but they did not come forward. "We have suggested to them for a joint survey and lend our helping hand but they seem to have shied away," he said. |
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