BJP ready for assembly polls in JK: Ravinder Raina
Srinagar: The BJP on Saturday said it was ready for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and appealed to the Election Commission to announce dates for the polls in the Union territory.
Addressing a party rally here, Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina said, “Former chief minister Omar Abdullah accused us a couple of days ago of running away from elections. I request the EC with folded hands to announce the dates for elections in Jammu and Kashmir.”
Raina said the party was confident of forming the government in Jammu and Kashmir as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had worked for peace in the Union territory and welfare of its people.
“BJP is completely ready for the assembly elections in JK. We are confident that the people of Kashmir will wholeheartedly vote for BJP this time. The work done by Modiji for the poor and the underprivileged will make the people of Kashmir vote for BJP.
“BJP is ready for all elections — be it Lok Sabha, assembly, or local bodies. No one needs to be scared, the people have to decide and the verdict will come in the political battlefield. I am confident that BJP will form the next government in JK,” he added.
Launching the party’s “Har Ghar Chalo” campaign, Raina said the aim of the Modi government was to work for the welfare of the poor.
“We want the poor to be happy, we want to serve the poor. Everyone should feel this government belongs to him, everyone should feel that they are getting justice,” he said.
Making a pitch for the next year’s Lok Sabha polls, Raina said, “We want BJP to win Lok Sabha elections from Kashmir.”
He appealed to the people of Kashmir to give one chance to BJP. “We will work for development and welfare of the people. We will work for communal harmony and brotherhood,” he added.
Talking to reporters after the rally, Raina said Modi has brought peace to Jammu and Kashmir which has made the BJP popular in the Union territory.
“Modi sahib has worked for the welfare of people of Jammu and Kashmir, brought peace to Jammu and Kashmir. It is the reason that BJP is moving ahead in JK,” he said.
He said National Conference leader Omar Abdullah should know that elections are announced and conducted by the Election Commission and not by the prime minister or a political party.
Earlier addressing a rally organized in Jawaharnagar area of Srinagar, BJP leaer and Waqf Board Chairperson Dr Darakhshan Andrabi said that the contribution of the earlier family parties was to divide people on the basis of religions, regions and ethnicities just to loot the resources of J&K.
“They gifted us graveyards, migration camps, death and destruction and shamelessly they talked about their contribution. Modiji is the saviour of the people of J&K who ushered in the era of peace, re-construction, development and public welfare without any social divisions,” she said.
“BJPs popularity is the public endorsement to Modiji’s Kashmir policy,” she said.
Addressing the rally BJP General Secretary Sunil Sharma lambasted Ex-Chief Minister Omer Abdullah for his unruly utterances against respected party leader and the Party’s standing in J&K and said that the ‘hate-sellers’ are now preaching to us shamelessly.
“Dynasts are frustrated. Their unruly language is enough to expose them before the public. BJP has transformed Kashmir and given a new life to the ailing working systems in the UT”, said Sharma.
He said that those who ruled J&K for decades and did nothing but sentimental exploitation of masses are now daring to preach to us the ways of democracy.
“They deprived J&K from the local body elections for seven decades and are now talking about our escape from elections. We are ready to uproot them from public space as and when the Election Commission takes a decision”, said BJP General Secretary. Ex-MLC Surinder Ambardar was also present on the occasion.
