Udhampur, 31-10-2021: While several leaders of the opposition are falling in the lap of BJP one by one, it is only a handful of leaders who are putting up a brave fight against the dictatorial and anti-people policies of the present authoritarian regime. The BJP is resorting to coercion, threats, intimidation, offers, and allurements to break the opposition parties in a bid to establish its monopoly in the political landscape of J&K. It is therefore time for the true leadership not to allow the anti-Jammu and anti-people moves of BJP to go unopposed.
The people being faced with one of the worst ever crises due to stalled development, growing unemployment, rampant corruption, unmitigated corona pandemic, power and drinking water problems, and raging inflation, it is astonishing to note the Jammu opposition leaders abandoning their respective parties on regular basis and embracing BJP which they termed as anti-Jammu in the past”. This was stated by Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister who was addressing a public gathering at Billan Bowli, Udhampur today. Earlier Mr. Harsh Dev Singh was received at Gol Mela, Udhampur by hundreds of workers who escorted him on dozens of bikes and other vehicles in a huge procession to the venue site.
Accusing the BJP of conspiring to break the opposition parties, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh observed that the predators of the saffron brigade were resorting to all kinds of nefarious moves to crush dissenting voices. “Not only were the opposition leaders lured and seduced by the BJP with lucrative offers and promises of better political prospects on abandoning their respective political parties but coercive methods were also being used to make them fall in line. Those opposition leaders who refused to oblige BJP merely on material gains were bullied and browbeaten by using the coercive apparatus of the state. Threats, intimidations, assaults, allurements, detentions, and persecutions were the most commonly used tools by the BJP to disintegrate the opposition parties. And the basic objective was not to allow any party to stand in opposition to BJP”, asserted Mr. Singh. Mr. Singh further said the NPP which had emerged as the only voice of the Jammu region was also being targeted with several of its leaders having been tamed. He rued that many of its leaders and workers were being seduced or being threatened to quit the party only to weaken the movement launched by it against the anti-people, anti-Jammu, and anti-poor policies of BJP besides the betrayal of the latter with the cause of educated unemployed youth of the erstwhile state. “We would stand with the people through thick and thin and continue to expose BJP for all its acts of subterfuge and political blasphemy as only a selected few were left on the political turf to oppose BJP”, Harsh asserted.
Urging upon the people to strengthen Panthers Party, Mr. Singh said that it alone could dispense justice to the common masses, the poor, the downtrodden, and the marginalized. “We proved our self while in govt and we have now proved our self in opposition as well. During my short stint as Education Minister, several reforms and revolutionary changes were brought about in the education system which was acknowledged and appreciated across the board by all members of the Assembly. And while in opposition, we lodged over 650 protests in various parts of J&K for the cause of people with 55 such protests having been organized in New Delhi at Jantar-Mantar, outside Parliament, outside Home Ministry, outside BJP Headquarters New Delhi, and outside Pak Embassy. While other political leadership remained cocooned in their sanitized environment during peak corona pandemic, we were relentlessly fighting in the streets”, reminisced Harsh.