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Are you not the CM of Udhampur? Harsh questions Mehbooba

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 2/22/2018 2:34:38 PM

RAMNAGAR, Feb 21: With the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti having held pubic grievances camps in almost all Districts of the state, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman today questioned the neglect of District Udhampur from the itinerary of the CM. He said that primarily being an opposition bastion, District Udhampur was being ignored in development and allied matters for political reasons with opposition workers also being harassed and terrorized.
He said that with the BJP Ministers and its hostile leadership averse to the development needs and other genuine concerns of the District, the CM too seemed to have ignored the District at the behest of BJP. Are you not the CM of District Udhampur? Questioned Harsh to Mehbooba lodging his strong protest with regard to all round neglect of the 2nd largest District. He was addressing huge public meeting in Ramnagar Town today.
Urging upon the Chief Minister to hold Public Darbar in Udhampur also on the analogy of other Districts, he said that it would enable her to have a firsthand assessment of the ground situation besides the working of District Administration that was being used by vested interests in the govt to subserve their political interests leading to alienation and unrest amongst the general masses.
Alleging politicisation of bureaucracy, he said that several BJP Ministers and Deputy CM in particular were using the civil and Police Administration to browbeat the Panthers Party workers and to settle political scores with them. Alleging subversion of democratic rights of JKNPP in District Udhampur, Mr. Singh said that its workers were being bullied, harassed, intimidated, terrorised and implicated in false police cases at the behest of BJP leaders.
Seeking the personal intervention of the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti into the motivated administrative activism against Panthers Party, the Party Chairman regretted that the District Udhampur had failed to receive her attention despite several reports of maladministration, massive corruption and a partisan bureaucracy.
Expressing concern over the utter neglect and deprivation of the areas that had voted for Panthers Party in last Assembly elections in the constituencies of Ramnagar, Udhampur and Chenani of District Udhampur, he said that several officers had themselves confessed to have received instructions in this regard from BJP leadership.
Having been exposed for its omissions and commissions, the incumbent BJP leadership was taking support of the Deputy Chief Minister and other Ministers to use the bureaucracy for bullying the Panthers activists and their employee siblings working in various govt deptts. Urging upon the Chief Minister to personally take stock of the grievances of the diverse sections of society, he said that being head of the govt she was expected to ensure justice to all irrespective of their social or political affiliations.