PDP BETRAYED PEOPLE OF JAMMU AND LADAKH REGIONS AND FAILED TO COUNTER TERRORISM SAYS AMIT SHAH

While the presidential proclamation has been imposed in trouble torn Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Army and our security forces are valiantly fighting the hard core terrorists posing direct threat to the lives of the citizens by going on a killing spree, our political leaders are shamefully busy exploiting the critical situation to derive maximum political advantage by issuing statements in view of the fast nearing general election of 2019 which tantamounts to directly playing with the sentiments of those fighting with valour and commitment to safeguard our borders and sovereignity and integrity of the country.

The season of accusations and counter accusations have started on full swing and little is being done to reach at unanimity, forgetting ideological affiliations and differences to do something constructive and positive to bring strife torn Kashmir towards peace and tranquility particularly when J& K has witnessed so much of bloodshed during the last three decades resulting in staggering 65 thousand killings that included twenty thousand civilians and 10 thousand troopers including army and para military casualties.

The rest thirty thousand are terrorists and anti national elements. After the snapping of ties with the PDP in J&K and subsequent imposition of presidents’ rule the national BJP chief Amit Shah visited Jammu and addressed a massive rally castigating the Congress party and its chief Rahul Gandhi asking them to seek pardon from the people of Jammu and Kashmir n the nation for the Congress party leader Gulam Nabi Azad and Saifuddin Soz’s anti Kashmir and India remarks allegedly supporting Lashkare Tayyeba and Pak’s general Musharraf in the context of Kashmir.

BJP’s national chief was addressing a massive rally to commemorate the BALIDAN DIWAS of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukerjee. Castigating the Congress leaders amid thundering cheers Amit Shah said that the BJP withdrew support from the PDP because despite sending the massive central aid of Rs 25000 crores for the over all development of J&K the chief minister, though not naming her, has never done anything for the develooment of Jammu and Ladhak regions which has accorded maximum seats to the BJP reposing total faith in prime minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Praising the leadership and the concern of the prime minister Narendra Modi for the over all development of strife torn J&K Amit Shah said that the former visited the state more than a dozen times and allocated various developmental projects including a package of twenty five thousand crores for the people of this trouble torn state but despite this, the regions of Jammu and Ladakh have been left out of the developmental process and the BJP couldn’t tolerate this stepmotherly treatment and therefore withdrew support. While praising the valiant Army men and the troopers of security forces for their sacrifices while fighting the terrorists Amit Shah said that their sacrifices will never go waste and the entire terrorists will be wiped out in the near future.

Giving the details of the pre conditions fixed before making a tie up with PDP while forming the government four years ago Amit Shah revealed that there were three commitments sought from the PDP viz. (1) Kashmir’s sovereignity and integrity will never be compromised, (2) Balanced development of Kashmir valley including of Jammu and Ladakh region would be accorded full priority and emphasis and (3) the government would lay special emphasis to counter terrorism from the roots and establish peace and tranquilty in the trouble torn state.

But the Mehbooba Mufti government has utterly failed on this front by being soft towards the stone pelters and militants. What has happened in Jammu Kashmir is shocking as eminent journalist is brutally killed in broad daylight and an Army paratrooper Aurangzeb is kidnapped and thereafter horrendously killed he added. There is bloodshed all around and the government proves to be effectless to counter them. It was therefore in the fitness of the things and an inevitability to withdraw the support and impose president’s rule in Jammu & Kashmir. Accusing the PDP leader and former chief minister Mehbooba of being extremely complacense and igrorant towards the development of Jammu and Ladakh regions despite allocation of the central package of 80000 crores that included 63 developmental projects including constructions of AIIMS in Jammu Amit Shahbsaid that the PDP deliberately devoid Ladakh and Jammu of development and failed to provide land for the construction of ALL India Institute of Medical Sciences in the state.

He added that the union government can only allocate budget but the onus of the execution of various developmental schemes and projects rest with the state government which always lacked implementation. Hence withdrawal of support has become an inevitability in the larger interest of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly of Jammu and Ladakh region who’d voted BJP to power in the state. Amit Shah’s speech was primarily targetted against Congress and PDP knowing well thatwhile the PDP is its immediate political foe in the state apart from Congress, in the national scenerio its the Congress party which is its arch rival. Jammu and Ladakh being the hindi heartland in J&K are the BJP’s traditional strongholds from where it sought maximum number of seats while the PDP, National Conference and Congress bagged maximum seats from Kashmir.

Today’s massive public meeting of Amit Shah convened to commemorate the death anniversary of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukerjee was more a preparatory public meeting for the national election of 2019 in which the slogans of Bharat Mata Ki Jai rant the air several times indicating an effort to revive polarisation.