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| Khajuria accuses UPA for surrendering before separatists | | Govt. lingering on panchayat elections, alleges Nirmal | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 20- Alleging Jammu region has been subjected to repeated discrimination BJP State President Ashok Khajuria, while addressing party convention at Kathua today, refuted the claim of the government of giving fair deal to all the regions of the state.
Substantiating his charge he said Jammu region which has more area and more population than Kashmir, has less number of seats in assembly. He said that Kashmir-based leaders will in no case support the demand of delimitation and regretted that the stoic silence on part of the Jammu-based leaders of National Conference, PDP and Congress have exposed their real faces. The people who had high hopes from the elected representatives of these parties are feeling betrayed as they have become puppets in the hands of their Kashmiri masters and dare not to speak for the cause of Jammu. He also took the Congress-led UPA to task for surrendering before the separatists under "Quiet diplomacy" formula. Why the central as well as the state governments have not taken the problems of refugees, Kashmiri migrants, militancy affected areas, unemployed youth, farmers and border people seriously. Why they are more worried to accede to the demands of separatists? He questioned.
Dr. Nirmal Singh, in his address, charged the state government of lingering on the process of conducting panchayat elections in the state and also not being sincere in bestowing upon them full powers with regard to their local matters of development. He also criticized the valley-based leaders who have been working against the abolition of Special Status and terrorizing the innocent people of the state that abolition of this status will bring the outsiders to settle here and acquire properties in the state, which is totally baseless. This status has nothing to do with the settlement of outsiders as the neighboring states like Himachal Pradesh, where no such special status exist, even then no one can acquire property there.
State Vice-President Th. Ranjit Singh counted a number of problems being faced by the people in Kandi areas. Party MLAs Jagdish Raj Sapolia, Master Lal Chand and Durga Dass and District Presidents Prof. Sain Dass and Ved Mankotia also addressed the convention.
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