National Conference today asked Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to lead an all-party delegation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for establishing an AIIMS in Jammu region.
"Mufti Mohammed Sayeed should rise to the occasion and lead an all party delegation to the Prime Minister for seeking AIIMS for Jammu region," provincial president, National Conference, Devender Singh Rana said while addressing a public meeting at Kishenpur in Nagrota in outskirts of Jammu.
He said that Sayeed should understand that he is the chief minister for all the regions.
Rana criticised the PDP-BJP government saying that the coalition was deliberately ignoring simmering resentment among people over denial of All India Institute of Medical Sciences for Jammu region.
He charged that the BJP is so much intoxicated by power that it shelved the promises it made during elections by selling dreams and inciting passions over, what they used to say, regional discrimination.
"Now that they were supposed to deliver, they have surrendered even basic obligation of representing genuine aspiration as public representatives in a bid to remain glued to power," Rana said.
He described BJP's response to the situation as something created by vision-less government at the Centre in connivance with the state government and as sheer betrayal to the massive mandate they got in the Assembly elections.
While lauding the decision to setup AIIMS in Kashmir, the provincial president said that Jammu equally deserves the facility, particularly in view of its peculiar needs, topography, remoteness of various areas and above all being the premier pilgrim destination of the country.
He accused the BJP-PDP government of being callous and insensitive to Jammu's cause and forcing people to come to streets.
"The present government must emulate the spirit with which former chief minister Omar Abdullah had raised the issue of Central University at right quarters in New Delhi and got two universities for the state one each in Kashmir and Jammu," he said.
He said National Conference has never discriminated any region or section of society and it is in this context that the party has been endeavouring to seek justice for all the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh.
"National Conference does not believe in facilities for one region at the cost of the other. This is unacceptable," he said and expressed hope that the present dispensation will understand this and not lose further time.
