Don’t terrorise Government officials, governance missing: BJP

Jammu, Dec 28: J&K BJP chief spokesperson, Sunil Sethi Saturday stated that the National Conference (NC) government, instead of addressing people’s core issues, was focussed only on rhetorical political statements.

His other party colleague and J&K BJP spokesperson Arun Gupta also accused the NC leaders of “focussing on terrorising government officials of one region rather than giving good governance, which was missing in the last two months.”

Sethi and Gupta, joined by Y V Sharma, another J&K BJP spokesperson, were addressing a press conference at party headquarters, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.

Sethi, while addressing the media, said that in the recent assembly elections, NC chiefly got a mandate from Kashmir, which enabled it to form the government in Jammu & Kashmir.

“The NC promised the moon to the people of Jammu and Kashmir in its assembly election manifesto. After the formation of the government in J&K, the actual governance is being missed even after two months. NC has failed at every front in these two months. Neither it has taken care of people’s aspirations nor has it bothered to address people’s core issues. It has only focused on the political statements,” Sethi said.

Arun Gupta, in his address, said, “The Modi government brought J&K out of devastation and gloom and steered it to the path of growth and development. We won’t let NC spoil the progress made in the past few years. For over two-months, NC’s focus has been on terrorizing government officials of one region rather than prioritizing good, efficient and result-oriented governance.” He asked the NC government to first give the target and then monitor it efficiently.

“It is still working in the pre-2014 era of governance which reflects zero accountability in the governing system. The Chief Minister should understand that all the time politicising does not work. NC must understand that we all need statehood but that does not stop us from performing,” Gupta said.

“Except ‘Law and order’, the Chief Minister has got more than 35 departments like Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Co-operative, Consumer affairs, Disaster Management, Education, Estates, Higher Education, Floriculture, Fisheries, Forest, Finance, Food and Civil Supplies, GAD, horticulture, Industry, Labour, Medical and Health, Mining, Power, Public Works, Public Health, Planning, Revenue, Rural Development, Social Welfare, Science and Technology, Tourism, Transport and Tribal in the UT with 20 districts, 2 divisions and 247 tehsils,” Gupta pointed out.

“From 2014 with the change in the governance model, the Government of India worked very hard to achieve a place in the top 5 economies from fragile 5 economies and now we are entering in top 3 economies very soon. In J&K, the NC government has started slipping in performance giving way to the growth of separatism again,” Gupta alleged.

“There is always a difference in political governance and administrative governance. Administration governance has to focus on the requirements of people, implementing that and then monitoring it,” BJP leader said.

“The Union Government gave a huge package for employment generation for Industries, Services and Hospitality and the focus of the J&K government should be to work hard to generate employment,” he said.