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| Gupta ridicules claims of outgoing CM | | ‘Described Azad govt. the worst ever government the state had’ | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu, July 11- Ridiculing the claims of the outgoing Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and his Congress colleagues about their achievements, the former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta said ‘that it was the worst ever government that the people of Jammu and Kashmir had ever witnessed’. He described the Azad government as ‘government of hartals, demonstrations and dharnas’.
Commenting upon the statements of Azad and other Congress leaders that peace and prosperity was brought by their government especially in the past 32 months, Prof Gupta pointed out ‘that fundamentalism and secessionism was never so vocal, even in worst days of 190 when the former CM Dr. Farooq Abdullah deserted the state to live abroad’. He said the religious fanaticism and even the so-called mainstream parties including the NC, PDP and others in Kashmir joined hands to arouse communal frenzy in Kashmir over the allotment of land to SASB adding that even the newly elected Governor as also the erstwhile Congress government yielded before the extremism and pro-Pak elements. Their surrender before the naked communalism had led to an alarm amongst the nationalists not only in the state but also throughout the entire country, he remarked.
The BJP leader said that the claims about removal of regional discrimination could be judged on many accounts and cited several instances. He said while the daily wagers and some other workers in Jammu were paid just Rs. 500-700 per month as wages in Kashmir valley the similarly placed workers were getting Rs. 2100 per month. Despite making promises in and outside the Assembly, the Jammu based leaders of the Congress party did not react to this shameful discrimination, he said and asserted that there was hardly any sphere of life where the Congress rulers have not fumbled and bungled.
Prof Gupta charged the just ousted Ministers of swindling huge grants from the Centre on opening of new colleges and schools in the state and alleged that there was little infrastructure on the ground adding that the plight of the government educational institutions was evident from the fact that the results of many government schools and colleges was recorded between zero to hardly ten percent.
Charging the outgoing government of its failure in checking the growing unemployment problem in the state, Prof Gupta said that in 2005 when Azad took over as CM the number of educated youth was about one lakh and four thousands which has now crossed over to two lakhs, with Jammu region alone having 1.46 lakh educated unemployed youth.
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