Jammu, 11-01-2023 : JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla today convened a series of preparatory meetings ahead of Bharat Jodo Yatra in RS Pura Jammu South constituency. Seeking huge response to yatra, Bhalla said Bharat Jodo Yatra has ensured that the Congress is now setting the political narrative in the country and the BJP has been made to play on a pitch prepared by Congress, Bhalla said. He also said that Rahul Gandhi is trying to sharpen the ideological basis of the Congress. The Congress has been applauded, criticized, praised, and reviled. What it means is that we were on the defensive, we were always reacting to what the BJP was saying or what it was doing but through the Bharat Jodo Yatra I think we have succeeded to a very large extent in being able to set the terms of debate and the narrative in the political discourse,” Bhalla said.He said the yatra has had an “electrifying internal effect” on the organization as well as on the external world of Indian politics. Bhalla claimed that due to the yatra, the BJP is on the “back foot, disturbed and nervous”.
Bhalla accused the BJP of resorting to disinformation and falsehood on the ‘Bharat JodoYatra’, and said it shows the “fear” and “frustration” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP leadership at the success of the yatra. He alleged that this frustration is reflected in the actions and speeches of the BJP leadership in attacking Rahul Gandhi, who, he claimed, is getting a “good response” from the public during the yatra. “Prime Minister Modi’s fear is reflected in actions and speeches of BJP leaders,” he alleged and added that the BJP is “rattled” by the yatra. Bhalla said the more dangerous fact is that while they have been on a ‘Bharat Todo Yatra’ since 2014, they are resorting to “niggling tricks, blatant lies, and misguiding people” about the intentions of the yatra. “There is a sense of fret and discomfort amongst the top cadre of the BJP with the love, affection, and support that Rahul Gandhi ji is receiving from the people in his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Bhalla further claimed that entire government machinery has been put up against one man trying to correct what the BJP government has destroyed in the last eight years,” he said. He alleged that when the BJP could not find a flaw against the intention and execution, senior leaders and cabinet ministers have “stooped as low as resorting to twisting facts and spreading blatant lies”. Alleging that some leaders have even let go of all ethical values, the Congress leader presented some instances where the “fret and discomfort” have brought about “some lies and degenerative comments” from the BJP leaders and ministers. The most insensitive, toxic, degenerate comment has been made by BJP leaders. These comments bring out the true mindset of the BJP leaders and workers. While they may operate in such a mindset, the world works differently and doesn’t want to be painted in the light that BJP wants them to,” he alleged.
Bhalla claimed that far from delivering on its promises, the BJP has pushed the entire region into chaos. The disdain it nurtures for democracy is also not hidden from anybody. The statements emanating from BJP members reveal their frustration and jittery on account of their losing public support in the plains of Jammu,” Bhalla said. He said people have lately come to understand that BJP’s so-called development agenda was a “phony to shear people of J&K from their rights.” With little understanding of the situation the BJP has plunged the entire region into chaos and confusion, “he said.Bhalla said J&K has become a “testing laboratory of injudicious and ill-considered policies” of the government of India and that on an everyday basis the administration was coming up with flawed orders and policies.”