Jammu, April 28 (Scoop News)- BJP former National President Nitin Gadkari and National Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will be reaching Leh to campaign in favour of party candidate Thupstan Chhewang. This was announced by Prof Hari Om, Political Advisor to BJP State president Jugal Kishore Sharma, here today at party headquarters while interacting with media persons. The party leadership has been putting best efforts in Ladakh after massive polling in two Lok Sabha constituencies of Jammu Province. In this series Mukhtar Abas Naqvi will address election ralies at Zanskar, Kargil and Drass on May Ist while Nitin Gadkari will address election rally at Leh on May 4, he said and added that the visit of BJP National leaders will surely ensure victory of our candidate in Ladakh with thumping majority.
Prof. Hari Om said that the people of Ladakh have made up their mind to teach Congress and NC a lesson on account of a number of reasons. He said that it was Ghulam Nabi Azad who as Congress leader and Chief Minister sabotaged the UT movement in Ladakh by weaning away over ambitious and opportunists like Rigzin Jora, presently minister in the Omar Abdullah-led coalition government, and the hoodwinked and badly let down people of Ladakh have not forgotten his anti-UT role, said Prof. Hari Om and added that the Congress will have to pay a very heavy price for the sins committed by Azad.
“Ghulam Nabi Azad, who set the state on fire in 2008 by subverting the High Court directions on the Baltal land in Kashmir to appease fanatics and anti-Lord Shiva forces in the Valley, played dirty tricks to sabotage the duly-elected Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) by weaning away the over-ambitious LUTF members like Rigzin Jora and Tsering Samphal (Congress candidate for the lone Ladakh Lok Sabha seat). They and other local Congress leaders, including former Union Minister P Namgyal, acted as fifth columnists to promote their own vested interests at the cost of the Ladakhi cause. The memories of what Azad and the anti-movement elements did in Ladakh in 2004 and 2008 still linger in the minds of the Ladakhis and they will avenge the defeat of their cause by rejecting Congress candidate on May 7, when they will go to the polls,” said Prof Hari Om.
Ghulam Nabi Azad humiliated Chairman/Chief Executive Councilor Chering Dorjay of LAHDC in 2008 by denying him the opportunity of hoisting the national flag at the Sindhu Darshan Festival and by creating a situation under which a junior police officer hoisted the national flag even before Chering Dorjay could reach the venue. Prof Hari Om further said, and added that the Azad Government had many LUTF workers and councilors arrested on concocted charges, who were also physically tortured in Leh police station. His government also extended the tenure of the SSP Leh to three years from the normal two years to send a message to the Ladakhis that they must behave failing which they would be further terrorized and victimized, he further said while exposing the anti-movement activities of Azad.
Prof Hari Om claimed that the Azad government not only harassed and terrified many a LUTF leaders, including CEC Chering Dorjay, but also tried its level best to destroy the LUTF and tarnish the clean image of and politically finish Thupstan Chhewang, presently BJP candidate for the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat. It was Azad and his men in the local Congress who ensured the defeat of Chhewang in the 2008 Assembly elections at the hands of Rigzin Jora and caused a split in the Buddhist leadership of Ladakh, he said, adding that Rigzin Jora and Pinto Narboo had won the 2002 Assembly elections unopposed as LUTF candidates, but Jora at the behest of Azad sabotaged the LUTF and the UT movement to enjoy power. “In 2002, on the appeal of the Ladakhi Buddhist Association (LBA) all the political parties, including the Congress and the BJP, merged their identities with the LUTF, and won both the Assembly seats in Leh unopposed, but in 2004, Rigzin Jora and other vested interests at the behest of Azad revived the Congress party unit in Leh by sidelining prominent leaders like Thupstan Chhewang and Chering Dorjay. The revival of the Congress party in Leh was described by the cheated Ladakhis as a case of backstabbing,” he said, and added that the people of Ladakh inflicted an ignominious defeat on the Congress in the 2005 polls to the LAHDC winning 24 of the 26 seats for which the elections were held. History would again repeat itself on May 7, when an overwhelming majority of Ladakh will vote for Thupstan Chhewang to strength the hands of BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi, who wants a Congress-free India and wants to hand down to the nation a government that delivers, unites, ends policy of appeasement, empowers the un-empowered and achieves for the country a rightful place in the comity of self-respecting nations, said Prof Hari Om, adding Ladakhis would join hands against the Congress, like in the rest of the country, and vote for Thupstan Chhewang which, in turn, will be a vote for Narendra Modi. The people of Ladakh will teach a lesson to Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ladakhi leaders like Rigzin Jora, P Namgyal and Tesring Samphal for the dirty politics that they played to damage the Ladakhi cause, he further said, and added that the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government will fulfill the age-old demand of the Ladakhis and confere the UT status on them.
BJP State General Secretary Bali Bhagat and State Press Secretary Balbir Ram Rattan were present in the press conference.
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