NAGROTA: National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today sought a white paper from the BJP on development undertaken and jobs provided to the educated unemployed youth of the Jammu region in the past over five years. “The people of Jammu are within their rights to have a report card from the BJP, which they cradled in power with massive 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly in 2014 on the promise of jobs, development and fulfillment of all the aspirations”, Rana said while addressing a series of public meetings across Nagrota and Dansal District Development Council segments in favour of the party candidates Somnath Khajuria and Shameem Begum. He said the BJP can’t get away from answering to the people, as they feel let down, degraded, humiliated and left in lurch during the past over five years. The promises made were never kept and, in fact, the normal course of development was also put in the rear gear, as the self-centered agenda remained the top priority. The insult to the injury is that the BJP is again hoodwinking the people by emotive slogans, forgetting its role on the administrative and developmental front. This is brazen and speaks of the hypocrisy that is core of the BJP, he added. The Provincial President reminded the BJP of flaunting about 50,000 to 70, 000 jobs on fast track basis in a time bound manner and asked as to how many of these stand filled up. The people know the answer but still want to hear it from the self-proclaimed champions of the Jammu cause. Instead of empowering the youth, the BJP created uncertainties by taking measures like domicile and opening the scarce jobs to non permanent residents under the garb of domicile law, he added. “This is a worrisome situation for all”, the Provincial President said, adding that the Jammu youth have nowhere to go except the government sector in the absence of organized corporate sector. Due to performance inertia, most of the qualified youth are at the brink of getting over-aged, he said, adding that both skilled and unskilled youth too are finding themselves in the state of despondency due to the burgeoning unemployment problem. “Except for emotive slogans, the BJP has nothing to offer to Jammu”, he said and spelled out its failures on all fronts. He accused the BJP of exploiting the Jammu sentiment for the past over seven decades and when time of reckoning came, they betrayed and back-stabbed the people. Now the people of Jammu have realized their mistake of trusting a party, which was never sincere to its words. He asked the BJP to read writing as the problems of the people have accumulated in recent years. He cautioned the BJP not to test the patience of people and be ready for the verdict to be announced by dejected Jammu people in the ongoing District Development Council polls.
