Panthers’ Party Chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today said that BJP has bartered wishes and aspirations of Jammu region for the lust of power. He claimed that the BJP has betrayed people of the area.
Addressing a meeting of prominent citizens, Harsh Dev Singh said while the BJP is busy celebrating its ascendance to power in J&K, the common man feels disappointed and betrayed at the surrender of saffron party’s core agenda which was trumpeted by it during the parliamentary and assembly elections. He said that the BJP in its desperation to climb the ladder of power has sacrificed its age old ideology and proved beyond doubt that power could act as the strongest adhesive between estranged allies and conflicting interests.
He said that abrogation of Article 370, which was the most significant component of BJP’s ideological DNA, has been contemptuously discarded. He said that the party has displayed highly outrageous and incredulous conduct in succumbing to the diktats of PDP which on the contrary has got almost all its core issues included in the common minimum programme (CMP). He said while the PDP stuck to its guns, the BJP exhibited utter lack of spine. It failed to get its issues included in CMP thus blowing to smithereens all hopes and aspirations so anxiously nurtured by the people of Jammu region. He assured a full throttle campaign against the deprivation of Jammu region to fight for justice till the last.
Several prominent residents of the state today pledged their full co-operation to the crusade launched by the Panthers Party for securing justice for the region and offered full support to its initiative for equitable treatment to all areas of the state. Those who were present in the meeting included Prof JP Singh, Balbir Singh, Prof MS Billowria, MS Jamwal, Bharat Bhushan Magotra, MK Jyoti, HS Jamwal, Sarla Kohli, Vijay Lakshmi, RS Jamwal and Maitali Gupta.
BJP has sacrificed its core agenda for power : Harsh Dev Singh
