 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 1: Describing the Union budget as illusionary, hollow and a statement of fudged figures, Panthers Party activists led by Harsh Dev Singh and Yashpal Kundal held a massive demonstration against the outright disregard of J&K from the scope of the budget at Exhibition Ground Jammu on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh said that the current budget announced by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had stored nothing for a common man which only appeared to be a damp squib amid high expectations from all the quarters.
Commenting upon the contours of the budget, he said that the budgetary announcement to reorganize agricultural policy to double the farmer's income by 2022 had only created an illusion in the minds of the farming community. He wondered whether it was a provision in the budget or a fairy tale prophecy made to the farmers since the mandate given to the GoI during the 2014 General Elections would only last till 2019.
Singh pointed out that the interests of youth were altogether ignored from the scope of the budget, as the grandiloquent promise doled out by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing employment to 10 crore youth during the elections turned into a mere 'hyperbolic teaser'.
Singh expressed his strong indignation over the reprobate disregard by the GoI by ignoring the State of Jammu & Kashmir from the purview of the budget announcement. He reminisced that J&K remained worst hit during the catastrophic rains and floods in September 2014 which consumed several lives, homes, crops and cattle stock causing havoc and chaos.
Others who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Manju Singh, Gagan Partap, Sham Gorkha, Purshotam Parihar, Chetan Sharma, Renu Singh, Nirmal Kishore, Neeraj Gupta, Kailash Mohan, Sardar N P Singh, Anil Rakwal, Rajesh Gondhi, Khajoor Singh, Shankar Singh Chib, Ravinder Jamwal, Asha Rani, Udhayveer, Sanju, Inderpal beside others. |
