Hitting hard BJP & government at the centre, Congress today questioned the Home minister Amit Shah for the failure of his government to control the rising terrorism in Jammu region and his refusal to give any time frame for granting statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a joint press conference at party's headquarters here today,jkpcc Senior leaders Shri Raman Bhalla , working president jkpcc, former MP Ch Lal Singh, Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma Ex MLC Ved Mahajan Incharge HQ, District President Kathua Pankaj Dogra besides, Chief Media Coordinator Neeraj Gupta, Spokespersons Kapil Singh and Sahil Sharma questioned the failure of centre government in handling the security situation and the law and order position which has deteriorated to a large extent especially in Jammu region post 2019, contrary to the tall claims of BJP government.
Kathua district was one of the most peaceful area in the region, but is now worst hit by militancy and people are fear struck in entire border belt and pahari region, said former MP Ch Lal Singh rejecting the false and misleading claims of Modi government.The situation on terrorism front and law and order was much better prior to 2019, and for the last two decades when J&K was a full fledged state but it has deteriorated in recent years, for which directly the home ministery is answerable.
Lal Singh alleged that security situation is worst in the district and there is great sense of insecurity amongst people who don't feel safe and secured in any part of the district and elsewhere. BJP and centre should answer people for their utter failure when entire control is with the centre under the UT.
BJP government at the centre and LG administration has been exploiting the resources of the Jammu and Kashmir especially Jammu region by converting the historical Dogra state into UT but law and order and security situation has deteriorated in Jammu region. He alleged acute shortage of man power with police stations in the district besides disbanding of police outposts and weakening of security network, Ch Lal Singh demanded immediate recruitment of local youth in the police to strengthen security and intelligence network.
Working President Raman Bhalla questioned BJP for the utter failure of the centre government in controlling security and law and order situation in Jammu region which has worsened to large extent under Union Territory than in previous years when Jammu region was almost peaceful.
He said BJP and centre government make tall claims of normally but on ground they are total failure on ground on the security front and in the overall law and order situation for which they are answerable. The entire Jammu region is today disturbed due to faulty and weak policies of centre government which only make false claims amidst increased terror incidents in the hithertoo peaceful region in the past two decades.
BJP and centre have no answer to these questions and only beat about the bush when questioned and go back to history without explaining how situation deteriorated under BJP regime especially after downgrading the state into UT , alleging it was just to control gain over the resources of Jammu and Kashmir state.
BJP has remained failure on all fronts in Jammu and Kashmir during the past ten years especially in giving employment to large number of educated youth despite availability of thousands of vacancies, regularise the daily wagers, casual,need based, temporary,adhoc, contractual employees working in numerous departments for several years and now shedding crocodile tears.It failed to fulfill the false promises with different categories of people including refugees, youth, farmers etc but biggest failure is law and order situation and security front.
Chief Spokesperson Mr Ravinder Sharma said that current security situation and law and order in Jammu region is the direct answer to false, misleading and shameful claims of BJP and centre government,day in & day out and demanded that government work out more fool proof measures to strengthen security and intelligence network and to restore security confidence amongst people.
He said congress party is fully behind the security forces to deal with the situation and to defeat terrorism while paying rich tributes to the martyrs and expressing solidarity with their families on behalf of the party, however he alleged that BJP alone wanted to take credit for controlling terrorism but situation has deteriorated.Why not centre taking all political parties and elected representatives and popular government into confidence in controlling the situation in more effective ways.
He said BJP led centre is still vindictive in approach as it is not transferring power to the people even after six months of elections and an elected government in place. It is very serious and Unfortunte that the Chief minister has to say in the house that even the institution( control room) of lathicharge is away from seat of power i.e. civil secretariat indicating the current state of affairs of powers under UT system. BJP still wants trun the affairs from centre through remote control to enjoy power through proxy while escaping responsibility, which the congress shall not allow it and use every model to fix responsibility and expose the duplicity.