Srinagar, July 20 (JKNS): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary and Jammu & Kashmir BJP Prabhari Tarun Chugh on Monday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the National Conference (NC), alleging that the Chief Minister chose to engage in political activities in New Delhi while flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, particularly Rajouri and Poonch districts, cried out for relief and rehabilitation.
As per news agency JKNS, BJP’s Prabhari Tarun Chugh launched a sharp attack on the National Conference government and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, saying that while Jammu & Kashmir is grappling with a severe humanitarian crisis caused by cloudbursts and flash floods in Rajouri, Poonch and other parts of the Jammu region, the Chief Minister has chosen Delhi politics over his responsibility towards the people.
During a meeting in New Delhi with J&K BJP President and Rajya Sabha MP Sat Sharma and Rajya Sabha MP Er. Ghulam Ali Khatana, Chugh said that thousands of people have been affected, many families displaced and more than twenty lives lost in the recent disaster. At such a critical time, the foremost duty of the Chief Minister and the National Conference leadership should have been to remain among the affected people, supervise relief and rehabilitation efforts and ensure swift assistance to every family in distress.
Chugh said it was deeply unfortunate and shameful that while grieving families struggle to recover from loss and devastation, Omar Abdullah and the entire National Conference leadership are busy participating in political programmes and protests in Delhi.
“Instead of leading rescue and relief operations, Omar Abdullah has chosen political optics over public duty. At a time when the people needed their Chief Minister on the ground, he abandoned them to pursue the National Conference’s political agenda. This reflects administrative failure, misplaced priorities and complete insensitivity towards the suffering of the people,” Chugh said.
He added that any responsible government would have immediately mobilised the administration, camped in the affected areas, monitored rescue operations and ensured rapid relief and rehabilitation for victims.
“The National Conference has once again demonstrated that politics matters more to it than the welfare and safety of the people. Governance cannot be replaced by political theatre while citizens suffer,” he said.
Chugh further said that the National Conference leadership is attempting to divert attention from the immediate concerns of the people and mislead citizens instead of focusing on relief, rehabilitation and restoration of normalcy. He said that at a time when Jammu & Kashmir requires sensitive and accountable leadership, its elected leadership is busy staging political events in the national capital.
Highlighting the BJP’s response, Chugh said that the party immediately cancelled its proposed protest programme in Srinagar in view of the flood situation so that complete attention could be devoted to relief and rescue efforts. He said that a delegation of senior BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma, former J&K BJP President Ravinder Raina, Vice-President Dr. Shehnaz Ganai, General Secretary Gopal Mahajan and others, rushed to the affected areas, assessed the damage, met victims and are ensuring every possible assistance.
“The BJP believes service to the people comes before politics. While our workers and leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder with flood victims, the National Conference leadership was…
