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| BJP conveniently forgets 'plight of border migrants' : Rana | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Expressing grave concern and anguish over total neglect of border dwellers, rendered homeless due to intermittent ceasefire violations especially on the International Border, National Conference on Saturday alleged that the BJP conveniently has forgotten border migrants' plight and sought immediate rehabilitation of affected border dwellers on war-footing. "In run up to the recent assembly elections, the BJP leadership had evinced lot of interest towards the problem and made liberal promises to border residents but soon after the polls these turned out to be just hoax", Provincial President and MLA Nagrota Devender Singh Rana said while addressing a press conference at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this evening. Flanked by MLA Bishnah, Dr Kamal Arora, the Provincial President NC and MLA Nagrota, Rana said frequent visits to the affected areas by BJP top leaders, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the party President Amit Shah were just photo-ops and attempt to exploit miseries of the sufferers for votes. "They were more interested in ballot and least concerned for the bullet-victims, he said, adding, "in the post election phase, none of the elected 25 BJP MLAs got time to pay a return visit to much exploited border dwellers, as they remain busy in lobbying for plump portfolios and induction in the ministry." Continuing his attack on BJP, Rana further said that BJP had turned deaf and dumb on the plight of border migrants and asked as to how much time it takes for planning and firming up relief and rehabilitation. "They have all the time to explore possibilities of forming the government but literally not a moment to express a word of solidarity towards the hapless residents", he said. Rana described the condition of border dwellers and situation in the forward areas really bad and made a passionate appeal to the media to play their pro-active role in awakening the policy planners in New Delhi towards their problems. To a question on the statement made by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh about plots being identified for border sufferers at Hiranagar, he said issue is to be addressed in totality. "Along with Hiranagar, all the affected areas are required to be covered", he said, adding that it was not just an issue of a particular parliamentary constituency but the entire Jammu region. Highlighting miseries of border people, MLA Bishnah Dr Kamal Arora referred to the visit of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and said a detailed proposal had been drafted for relief and rehabilitation of the affected areas. He said he will meet Governor N N Vohra along with a delegation from the area to seek approval of the proposal by the Centre on immediate basis.
Prominent among those present during the press conference included State Vice Presidents Rattan Lal Gupta and Thakur Kashmira Singh besides Jugal Mahajan, S S Bunty, Iqbal Wani and Sajjad Shaheen. |
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