| NPP protests against BJP, demands accountability for J&K’s plight | | |  Early Times Report
Udhampur, June 13: Accusing the BJP of having ruined J&K in the name of reorganisation, the NPP President and former minister led a massive protest in Udhampur raising slogans against the BJP government at the centre.
The protestors wearing black bands and carrying black flags, raised slogans of “BJP Hai Hai”, “Central Minister go Back”, “J&K ke sath, experiment karna band karo”, “Students aur youths ka shoshan karna band karo” etc Speaking on the occasion JKNPP president Harsh Dev Singh, said that central ministers were regularly visiting J&K and holding political rallies in the UT at the taxpayers expense without paying back anything to the erstwhile state.
He said that crores of rupees had been spent on the sabbaticals of these central ministers by a cash starved UT like J&K without it receiving any special central grants from the visiting politicians.
He said that the J&K economy had plunged to an all time low with unemployment rate having beaten all records, and daily rated, casuals and contractual and even the Mgnrega workers without wages for months and years together.
Singh said that no visiting central minister was sure of restoration of statehood, or assembly elections in the near future.
He said that the public exchequer of J&K was being used to fund their political tours and other incessant drum beating regarding their fictional achievements of nine years rule.
Singh said that “the college aspiring students were the most disappointed lot in view of their examination centres, having been created outside the J&K UT, with the central ministers and state administration keeping mum despite massive public uproar.” |
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