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| General elections would prove waterloo for Congress, NC: Hari Om | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: Terming as hollow the claim of the Congress that it is secular party and that it believes in the principle of justice and equity, Prof Hari Om, Political Advisor to BJP State President, Jugal Kishore Sharma, on Friday said that the memories of what the Congress-led coalition government did to harm Jammu province between November 2005 and July 2008 are too fresh to be forgotten and asserted that the badly let down people of Jammu would surely avenge their humiliations in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
"The Congress in general and Ghulam Nabi Azad in particular have done more harm to Jammu province and its people than any other party and Kashmiri leaders. The people of Jammu province are seething with anger and their anger is directed more against the Congress than the pro-autonomy and pro-separatist NC," he said while addressing press conference here at the party headquarters. Hari Om asked the Congress to give answers to the questions the politically marginalized and economically ignored people of Jammu province invariably ask before demanding votes from them. He said that is it not a fact that Ghulam Nabi Azad said in 2003 that the Congress committed a wrong by holding out a promise that it, if voted to power, will establish regional development board in Jammu for empowering its people and ending discrimination with them saying there was no need for such a political instrument as there existed District Development Boards across the state?
Government rejected in 2007 the 1983 Wazir Commission Report that had recommended three more districts for Jammu and one additional district for Kashmir and created eight districts, four each in Jammu province and Kashmir Valley, through an executive order, despite the fact that there was no demand in Kashmir for more districts, he said.
He said that govt also rejected in 2007 the Private Member's Bill that sought support in favour of the suggestion that there should be no state flag and that there should be only national flag and adopted in the Private Member's Bill moved by the NC that provided for one-year imprisonment for those who would not show respect to the state flag?
The Congress must explain away its conduct to satisfy the people of Jammu province before demanding votes from them, he said, adding that the BJP has no doubt that the upcoming general elections would prove a waterloo for the Congress and the NC and the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi would come out with flying colours. He said that the BJP has several other questions for the Congress and it would ask the Congress to give answers to these questions in the coming days. |
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