PDP-BJP kept Chenab Valley in poverty, backwardness and deprivation: Saroori

Ghulam Nabi Azad broke the myth that development is a utopian dream of the state

Addressed party workers meeting at Thathri

THATHRI, FEBRUARY 20: - Unfolding his party’s development agenda for the Chenab Valley region, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC), Vice President, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori said in spite of being a store house of natural resources the present regime PDP and BJP has kept the area in poverty, backwardness and deprivation.

Addressing a workers meeting at Thathri area of Doda district, Saroori said PDP and BJP Government has earned the anger and people will disapprove them all across the State because of their misdeeds, corruption, scandals, and inefficiency. He said the previous three and half years have witnessed the worst ever Govt in the State and it won’t be a surprise that the coalition partners will be dumped by the people.

Saroori said the formation of next Government by Congress was a foregone conclusion but it is in the hands of the people how strong a mandate they would give in the next Assembly election to Ghulam Nabi Azad to address the heavy challenges the State is faced with.

He said that that the Ghulam Nabi Azad broke the myth that development is a utopian dream and it was practically demonstrated by the Congress party to deliver the fruits of development equitably and judiciously to all the regions of the State. He said that this proactive developmental agenda left a deep imprint on the hearts and minds of the people. “We made ‘development’ as a narrative and discourse in the State, and dispersed the fruits of development beyond the confines of Jammu & Srinagar city”, Mr Saroori said and added that the landmark decision of creating new sub-divisions, tehsils, blocks by previous coalition government have alleviated the hardships of the people of this backward region, and has given a new thrust to the developmental process in the Chenab region but the present regime totally failed to continue the development process started during our regime.

Saroori said that the falsehood at the Modi regime at the Centre and PDP-BJP at the State has been exposed because of their politics of duplicity. He said that people of the State were fed up with Centre and State Govt. in a very short span because of the false promises and U turn on all important commitments made with the people during elections. Lauding the people of Inderwal, Chenab Valley belt who have always given a befitting reply to the communal and divisive forces and maintained their tradition of harmony, Mr. Saroori said that the innocent people were made to believe the falsehood spread by BJP-PDP as per their tactical strategy to rouse the emotions of the people. The unholy alliance by the two ideologically opposite coalition partners have made the people to be cheated and betrayal.

Congress MLA further said that from the last four years, people of the state have felt that the people have rejected the sheer opportunism and total surrender of their ideological commitments and core issues upon which they won election. He lashed out at the coalition Govt. for its wrong policies and failure to address the genuine issues like providing of hassle free basic essential things, employees of different categories, ReT teachers, the daily wagers, casual labours, functioning of various administrative units, unemployed youth leading to unrest in various sections of the State. He said that Congress is the only secular force in the Country which has a history of respecting the aspirations and protecting the rights of different sections of society.

Among others Asgar Hussain Khangi, Mohd Iqbal Teli, Abdul Razzak, Mushtaq Ahmed, Noor Mohd, Ghulam Hussain Butt, Nek Alam, Om Prakash Bhagat, Mohd Rafi, Abid Hussain, Rashid Mughal, Chowdhary Abdul Karim, Bilal Ahmed Sheikh, Shameem Ahmed and others addressed the workers at Thathri.