Jammu, Dec 21 National Democratic Party Indian (NDPI) J&K UT President Rajesh Gupta while addressing
the party workers here lambasted BJP saying that tall promises of development, employment, progress and
prosperity of the region were made with the people who were mesmerized with several other seductive
slogans. He said NDPI will fight the wrong and unconstitutional policies of the BJP which has left the people
of Jammu and Kashmir as unhappy. He said BJP has vowed to finish the identity of Jammu and Kashmir
through unconstitutional and undemocratic moves like abrogation of special status, introduction of new land
laws and bifurcation of the erstwhile State into Union Territories.
NDPI Chief while addressing public issues in a meeting with NDPI leaders accusing the Jammu and Kashmir
administration of failure to address the basic issues of the people, he said the public were fatigued with the
“bureaucratic and proxy” rule and called for early restoration of democracy in the Union Territory. Rajesh
Gupta said elected representatives alone could appreciate the concerns of the public as against the “outside
bureaucrats” who hardly have any accountability to the people. Claiming that bureaucratic rule in the
erstwhile state had proved a “flop show”, Gupta claimed people were fast losing faith in the present
dispensation which had failed to address even their basic concerns. “With people across the new UT
protesting on a day-to-day, uninterrupted power and adequate water supply, restoration of roads and other
essential services, there did not appear to be any takers for their shrill cries,” he said. Gupta also made it
clear before party forum that NDPI is a secular party and respects the integrity and sovereignty of India. He
said Citing history of autocracy in some foreign countries, they opined that end of an authoritarian
government happened following successful mass upsurge.
Gupta said the voters were swayed by pro-Jammu rhetoric and several glamorous slogans given by the
saffron leadership to woo the masses. The gullibility of the Dogras was exploited to the full to attain the high
seats of power. The spell bound people blindly reposed their faith in the BJP giving it a landslide victory from
Jammu region in assembly seats as well as the parliamentary elections, he said.
The leaders those attended the meeting were Umesh Manhas, S.Kuljeet Singh, Tilakraj, Rajiv Luthra,
Sandeep Anand and others
BJP fails to address public issues in J&K: Rajesh Gupta
