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| Restore statehood to J&K at earliest: Harsh Dev | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: Seeking early restoration of statehood to J&K and installation of an elected govt, Harsh Dev Singh Former Minister and Chairman AAP J&K State Co-ordination Committee said that prolonged central rule in the erstwhile state was a negation of the constitutional guarantees enshrined in the constitution of India. He said that several assurances by the central govt of restoring statehood to J&K at the appropriate time had failed to inspire the people of J&K who had lost faith in all such ‘melodramatic rants’ of the BJP leadership. He was addressing a press conference during the course of induction of over 100 Sarpanches and Panches joined Aam Aadmi Party at party headquarters in Jammu today.
The new entrants were introduced by Mr. Raj Kapoor and Mr. Dharam Singh Bittu, senior leaders of the Party.
Addressing media persons, Harsh Dev Singh said that while the people of the erstwhile state were mystified and befuddled by the abrupt abrogation of Article 370, they had expressed their strong opposition to the dismantling of 200 year old historical State of J&K and downgrading it to the level of UT. He said that such move of BJP led government had not only lowered the morale of the people of erstwhile State but caused huge disenchantment in the hearts and minds of the general masses. “It was not a demotion of the State only.
Infact every sensible citizen felt downgraded and humiliated. It had deeply hurt the sentiments of the people of J&K who felt belittled and dwarfed”, said Mr. Singh.
“History bears testimony that J&K acceded to the Union of India in 1947 only due to the historic decision taken by Maharaja Hari Singh despite numerous stumbling blocks, pulls and pressures. The demotion of State to UT level was not only unprecedented in the history but amounted to huge disparagement of the patriotic people of Jammu and Kashmir”, observed Mr. Singh.
Alleging continued neglect and deprivation of Jammu region even after abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A, Mr. Singh said that BJP had failed to redeem any of its promises made to its electorates with majority of the development projects of state having been either stalled or abandoned.
The Jammu region in particular has continued to remain the victim of the cold criminal negligence of the present regime. The projects including Artificial Tawi Lake, Mubarak Mandi Heritage Project, Development of River Tawi on Sabarmati Pattern, Smart City, AIIMS Zumbo Zoo etc to have either been abandoned or going at snails pace.
Unemployed and underemployed youth were on the roads. And the only achievement of the BJP led government after Article 370 abrogation appeared to be the installation of multiple Toll Plazas and opening of multiple liquor vends, asserted Mr. Singh.
Demanding early restoration of statehood, Mr. Harsh Dev urged for personal intervention of the President of India to save the people of J&K from dictatorial and autocratic regime. |
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