{"id":60058,"date":"2025-02-24T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=60058"},"modified":"2025-02-24T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:35:10","slug":"jkpcc-chief-tariq-hameed-karra-slams-bjp-over-statehood-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/jkpcc-chief-tariq-hameed-karra-slams-bjp-over-statehood-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"JKPCC Chief Tariq Hameed Karra Slams BJP Over Statehood Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 3 []\"><strong>Jammu, February 2025:<\/strong> Claiming that the people of <strong>Jammu and Kashmir<\/strong> are suffering badly due to the absence of powers with the elected Government, <strong>JKPCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra<\/strong> today asked <strong>BJP<\/strong> to explain whether the commitment to restore <strong>Statehood<\/strong> was another <em>\u2018Jumla\u2019<\/em> of the <strong>Modi Government<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a workers\u2019 convention of <strong>District Jammu Rural<\/strong> in the <strong>Muthi area of Jammu<\/strong>, Karra questioned the <strong>local BJP<\/strong> for its silence over the <strong>neglect of the most popular demand<\/strong> of the people of <strong>J&amp;K<\/strong>. He criticized the BJP for failing to fulfill promises made before Parliament, the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>, and the people of <strong>J&amp;K<\/strong> during recent Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Karra further asserted that the <strong>Congress Party<\/strong> would not rest until the <strong>Central Government<\/strong> fulfills its commitment to <strong>restore Statehood<\/strong>. He also pointed out the <strong>silence of local BJP leaders and MLAs<\/strong> despite securing a huge mandate from the people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIs this not a continued deceit of the Centre over the most fundamental demand of the general public and their rightful claim?\u201d<\/em> he questioned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He emphasized that people in <strong>J&amp;K<\/strong> are suffering due to the lack of an elected government, and various sections, including <strong>unemployed youth, daily wagers, contractual employees, adhoc workers, NHM employees, Anganwadi and Asha workers, and SPOs<\/strong>, continue to wait for justice from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Karra highlighted that <strong>Dogras<\/strong> are the worst affected, having lost their <strong>identity, status, dignity, and rights<\/strong> to protect their <strong>land, jobs, and natural resources<\/strong>. He accused the BJP of allowing <strong>outsiders to exploit the region<\/strong> and suppressing <strong>Dogra culture, language, and peaceful co-existence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cCongress has a history of sacrifices before and after independence, with two Prime Ministers sacrificing their lives, while the BJP carries a legacy of \u2018Mafinama\u2019 politics and now seeks certificates of nationalism from Congress,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Congress Leaders Speak on People\u2019s Rights<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Addressing the gathering, <strong>Tara Chand<\/strong> spoke about the <strong>Congress Party\u2019s<\/strong> role in <strong>uniting people and uplifting the downtrodden<\/strong>, ensuring that <strong>Dalits occupied prime positions<\/strong> in government through <strong>constitutional reservations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raman Bhalla<\/strong> referred to the <strong>large-scale development<\/strong> during the <strong>ten years of UPA rule<\/strong> and coalition government in <strong>J&amp;K<\/strong>, but lamented that the <strong>Modi Government arbitrarily snatched the region\u2019s identity and rights<\/strong> while now attempting to <strong>mislead the people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Convention Attended by Senior Leaders<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The convention was organized by <strong>DCC Rural<\/strong> under the leadership of <strong>Th Hari Singh Chib<\/strong> and was attended by:<\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>Tara Chand<\/strong> <em>(Working President)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Raman Bhalla<\/strong> <em>(Working President)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ch Lal Singh<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AICC Secretary Neeraj Kundan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IYC President Uday Bhanu Chib<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mula Ram, Balwan Singh, Ravinder Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Ved Mahajan, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma (MLA)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Iftikhar Ahmed, Rajnish Sharma, Shashi Sharma, TS Tony, Gurdarshan Singh, Balbir Singh<\/strong> <em>(IYC General Secretary)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Man Singh, Suresh Dogra, Narinder Sharma, Vijay Sharma, Bhushan Dogra, Ashok Bhagat, Ajay Lakhotra, Sanjeev Panda, Neeraj Gupta, Madan Lal Chalotra, Rajiv Saraf, Kapil Singh, Rajni Bala, and others<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, February 2025: Claiming that the people of Jammu and Kashmir are suffering badly due to the absence of powers with the elected Government, JKPCC chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60058","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60060,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60058\/revisions\/60060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}