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| Ex-CS Kundal says all parties except Congress have disastrous policies for J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
BHADERWAH, Dec 14: Continuing their electioneering for the party candidates, seeking elections from Doda district, several senior Congress leaders are making hectic efforts to reach out more and more people to elicit their support for the victory of the party nominees.
Former minister and MLC R S Chib, former minister B R Kundal and Prof. Hari Om are campaigning in the mountainous district for the last three days to muster support for the party candidates.
Addressing series of public rallies across the district today, Chib accused National Conference for its failure to bring state on the track of prosperity and peace despite being in power for nearly three decades.
Describing both the NC and the PDP as two sides of the same coin, the congress leader said barring emotive slogans and hollow promises these parties having nothing to share with the electorate and asserted that it is only Congress party which is the only hope for the people of the state having capability of delivering and relieving the people from all the odds.
Ridiculing both NC and PDP for playing deceptive policies to mislead the people of the state, the former minister Kundal said PDP has emulated the strategy of the National Conference to deceive the people and both the parties are in the race of gaining more and more public support through deceptive slogans adding that the prevailing situation of the state was the impact of the mirages created due to false slogans.
Expressing regrets over the misinformation campaign unleashed by certain vested interests over SRO 294, Kundal said that the controversial SRO was issued by the PDP led government reducing the reservation quota for the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes and hastened to add that it was Azad government that took corrective measures to amend the said SRO and increased the promotion quota for the SC communities from 4 to 8 percent ad from 5 to 10 percent in respect of scheduled tribe community.
He also dwelt at length about the development works taken up in the Doda district, especially in Bhaderwah constituency and said that it was the Congress government that extended the Jammu University campus to Bhaderwah, apart from taking up several steps to boost the tourism potential of the area and in this connection referred setting up of Bhaderwah Development Authority and undertaking construction of roads to unknown tourists spots like Jai and other hitherto unconnected villages. He said the visionary leader Ghulam Nabi Azad had planned to connect the erstwhile Doda district with the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh but regretted that due to the withdrawal of support by the PDP, this ambitious project could not be carried forward. |
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