Panthers Party questions BJP over lack of action against Rohingyas

Expressing dismay over the hullaballoo created over Rohibgya refugees in Jammu, the J&K National Panthers Party (India) has launched an attack on BJP questioning absence of action against illegal immigrants by BJP from 2014 to 2024.

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Harsh Dev Singh, former J&K minister and president of the Panthers party has questioned the saffron leadership’s silence over the issue during the last ten years from “when they ruled J&K directly or indirectly”. Singh was addressing public meetings in various villages of Nagrota constituency.

Singh said that massive protests were held in 2015, 2016 and 2017 when Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees were not only settled in Jammu but were allegedly provided all possible assistance by the then government with all civic amenities including water, power connections, ration, Aadhaar cards and even Permanent Residence Certificates.

Singh said, “Who was at the helm of affairs at that point of time? Was it not the BJP rule at the Centre as well in the state of J&K? And when people of Jammu launched agitation seeking their deportation, a deception was played by the then government by announcing the then deputy chief minister as chairman of a committee to work out the modalities for ouster of illegal immigrants. What has been the fate of the said committee? Should the BJP not explain the same as it was their deputy CM who headed the said committee?”

The Panthers Party chief said that now when the BJP was out of power, “its leaders were once again trying to mislead the people of Jammu through such gimmicks and melodramatic rants”.

Accusing the BJP leaders of indulging in double standards and taking one stand while in power and another in opposition, Singh asserted that no facade of deceptive slogans could beguile the people of Jammu who had recognised the real face of BJP.