Extending full support to the 72 hour bandh call by the AIIMS Co-ordination Committee, JKPCC leaders have lashed out at the BJP for trying to sabotage the movement for setting up of AIIMS in Jammu.Addressing a press conference at PCC HQ here today senior leaders of PCC comprising Shri Sham Lal Sharma, Senior Vice president, Vice Presidents Shri Mula Ram, Shri Raman Bhalla, Smt. Kanta Bhan, Chief Spokesman Shri Ravinder Sharma, General Secretaries, Th. Balwan Singh, Shah Mohd. Choudhary, Shri Faqir Nath and Shri Vikram Malhotra , the Party announced full support to the bandh call and appealed to the people to make it a grand success to further press the Centre and State Govt. to accede to the genuine demand for setting up of AIIMS in Jammu, as announced on February 28 this year.
Reacting sharply to the statements by the BJP State Unit and its various ministers and other senior leaders, the senior congress leaders accused the party (BJP) of first deceiving and betraying the people of Jammu on the issue and now are trying to weaken and sabotage the movement by their contradictory statements to confuse the general public by twisting facts. However the people have understood the real face of the BJP and are not going to buy by their arguments until the demand is conceded as per the terms of the Coordination Committee, comprising of all social and religious organizations and civil society with active support of Congress party and some other political parties who are for equitable treatment to Jammu Region.
The senior congress leaders questioned the role of BJP whose ministers and other senior leaders are issuing contradictory statements to distort the actual facts in order to confusethe people about the present of status of AIIMS, so that the ongoing agitation and movement is weakened. The people are aware of the role of the BJP and its ministers and other leaders since the formation of the coalition with PDP and they(people) are not ready to accept their false assurances and hollow announcements. After having failed to secure the interests of the people of this region on the issue of AIIMS and various other issues of parity, the BJP and its leaders are doing great dis-service by their attempts to weaken and sabotage the ongoing movement, which however, would be taken to its logical conclusion at all costs, they added.