To highlight the achievements of the Central government and the previous PDP-BJP coalition government, the Jammu East Mandal of BJP organized “Vikas Sushasan Sankalp Rally” at Geeta Bhawan. It was organized under the leadership of local MLA Rajesh Gupta and Mandal President Prof. Sham Lal Gupta.
The party leaders were felicitated by offering Dogra Turban and Shawls on their arrival at the rally venue.
BJP MLC & Former State President Ashok Khajuria, while addressing the gathering, said that during the ten month period of PDP-BJP coalition in J&K, the state witnessed new era of development and progress but the opposition parties like Congress and NC cannot digest the same and hence its leaders have unleashed a misinformation campaign to mislead the people. He said that the Congress in particular first need to explain what it did for Jammu during the decades when it was in power and why now it is shedding crocodile tears. He said that the BJP works on the principle of Antodya, Vasudeva Kutumbh, uniformity and equality. He said that we have proved our concern for Jammu time and again and we do not need any certificate from opposition parties.
BJP State General Secretary Dr. Narinder Singh briefed the gathering about various schemes and projects launched by Narendra Modi government with a sole motive of overall development and welfare of all the sections of the society without any regional bias.
Rajesh Gupta, while highlighting the works in Jammu East constituency said that the multi-storey parkings in different areas, construction of new toilets, 80% black topping of roads and lanes, renovation of Mubarakh Mandi complex, beautification of Dogra Chowk, establishing Children park in Vikram Chowk and getting the decision to shift Bus stand cancelled are few achievements of one year. He said that his dream is to develop Jammu East as Model Constituency and is working to achieve the same for it.
Chander Prakash Ganga said that the real development comes true only when each family has accesss to food, health facilities, education and security and our coalition government did a lot to achieve this type of development. He also spoke about the mega projects related to setting up of industries and creating new jobs for unemployed youth. He said that the BJP MLAs and ministers had been working round the clock to fulfil the promise of good governance, development and corruption free administration.
Priya Sethi highlighted schemes meant for women folk and said that Narendra Modi government took inititative to encourage the families to promote female birth by assuring to take responsibilities of each girl born from January 2015 onwards. She said that enhancement of one time assistance to widows from rupees 10,000 to 40,000 and making hike in widow pension from rupees 200 to rupees 1,000 are the welfare schemes aimed at economic upliftment of the poor women.
Jammu District President Baldev Singh Billawaria, in his address, appreciated the BJP Ministers for their concern towards making development and welfare as their prime duty. He also applauded the decisions taken by PDD under Deputy CM Dr. Nirmal Singh.
It was also addressed by Amarnath Gupta, Dr. Narinder Singh, Yudhvir Sethi, Purnima Sharma, Shiv Kumar Gupta, Vinay Gupta, Prof. Sham Lal Gupta, Sunil Dogra, Ramesh Sharma, Kuldeep Kandhari, Ashwani Sharma and Karan Singh.
