Former Minister and senior leader from Rajouri and Poonch districts, Choudhary Zulfikar Ali, and his supporters joined the BJP here. Union Minister and J&K Assembly election Incharge G Kishan Reddy, BJP National General Secretary and Prabhari J&K Tarun Chugh, J&K BJP President Ravinder Raina, and Dr Jitendra Singh, Union MoS PMO welcomed him into the party fold. Reddy said that the Modi government granted the rights to the ST community after decades of injustices.
He mentioned the grant of reservation to the community for the first time after the revocation of Article 370 by the Modi government. He said that two crore tourists have reached here for the first time defeating terrorism. “Brotherhood, peace, and development have replaced stone-pelting and separatism in Jammu and Kashmir under Modi.
Stones in the school bags have been replaced by notebooks and laptops. New roads, highways, bridges, hospitals, three three-tier democracy with the DDC election have replaced nepotism and corruption. Earlier, countless money was spent on papers, but it went to the pockets of few and was never spent on the ground for the welfare of the common masses, he said and further added that the Modi government is committed to working for the welfare of people with even more vigour,”he said Tarun Chugh criticised Abdullah, Mufti, and Nehru-Gandhi families for ditching and doing injustices to the Gujjar-Bakerwal community for 70 years.
He said that these parties banned inter-district recruitmen.