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Rana assails BJP for riding communal polarization to wrest power
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Monday, 10 March 2014
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Jammu: Cautioning people against
attempts being made by reactionary forces to polarize society on communal lines
in a bid to win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Provincial President National
Conference Jammu Devender Singh Rana on Monday expressed anguish over
religion being used as a tool to wrest the power.
According to a statement issued to KNS, Rana while
addressing a series of public meetings at Jagdambey, Mohalla Slathia, Mohalla
Bnathia, Kuppar Pargalta in Nagrota Assembly Constituency said: “The BJP has
already started playing communal card and whipping up passions to woo the
voters.”
The Provincial President said the BJP had made its
intentions known well while anointing Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial
candidates knowing full well his role in Gujarat riots. “This was a sort of
provocation to secular and peace loving people across the country”, he said
adding that they will not succeed in their machinations. He said the people of
the country in general and Jammu and Kashmir in particular have negated
communal politics, as it is alien to their pluralistic ethos.
Rana accused BJP of playing shrewd politics by having a
secret understanding with PDP to cut the secular votes. This is a strategy
drawn over the months, which is being put into practice subtly and
clandestinely. “However, the people are politically sagacious enough to draw distinction
between right and the wrong”, he added.
He hit out at BJP and PDP for pursuing anti-people agenda
and vitiating the atmosphere by resorting to falsehood and deceit. “While PDP
is missing no opportunity to exploit the woes of the people, BJP is displayed
rabid communal politics to provoke a major segment of secular population”, he
maintained.
The Provincial President said that National Conference,
as custodian of the larger interest of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
will stand like a rock and foil the nefarious designs of communal and
disruptive elements. He urged the workers to play their crucial role, as they
have been doing to keep the light of secularism aloft at all costs.
Rana also referred to the development of Nagrota
constituency and said that Omar Abdullah led government has dispelled the
feeling of neglect by providing equal opportunities of progress and
development. “This process is to be given further momentum”, he said while
urging the people to strengthen the hands of the Chief Minister. He referred to
various path breaking initiatives taken for speeding up development, enforcing
accountability, ensuring transparency and making the wheels of administration
move as per the aspirations of the people. He also referred to the creation of
new administrative units, saying these will go a long way in meeting the
administrative and developmental needs of the people.
Present during the workers meetings included Rameshwar
Dutt, Som Nath Khajuria, Ch Rehmat Ali, Girdhari Lal, Din Mohammad, Kaushal,
Mohinder, Kuldeep and others. (KNS)
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