Jammu, Jun 13: J&K Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Rajya Sabha MP Sat Sharma on Saturday announced that the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in J&K Legislative Assembly Sunil Sharma would lead agitation against, what he alleged, “National Conference government’s outsourcing scam.”
Sat Sharma, along with Sunil Sharma, was chairing a meeting of senior party leaders at the BJP headquarters in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu, to deliberate on the “failures and anti-youth policies of the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference government in Jammu and Kashmir.”
Launching a sharp attack on the National Conference government, Sat Sharma alleged that it failed to honour the commitments made to the people of Jammu and Kashmir during the 2024 Assembly elections.
J&K BJP general secretaries Sanjita Dogra, Baldev Singh Billawaria and Gopal Mahajan; secretaries Reema Padha, Arun Sharma; media in-charge Dr Pardeep Mahotra; spokespersons Balbir Ram Rattan, Dr Hari Dutt Shishu, Ankur Sharma and Zorawar Singh Jamwal; SC Morcha president Dharminder Kumar, Refugee Cell convenor Balvinder Singh, besides other senior leaders, were present in the meeting.
J&K BJP president, while addressing the gathering, said that the NC leadership made lofty promises to the people but was currently adopting a completely contradictory stance, abandoning the very assurances highlighted in its election manifesto. He asked the government to uphold “Raj Dharma” and ensure transparent, accountable and people-centric governance.
“The BJP will not allow any disservice to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, any discrimination against the residents of Jammu, or any policy that compromises the future of J&K youth. We will fight tooth and nail against every instance of bad governance and anti-people decisions taken by the present dispensation,” Sat Sharma asserted.
He stated that the Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma would spearhead the party’s resistance against, what he termed as the “government’s draconian outsourcing policy.” He directed the party’s general secretaries to support and coordinate the resistance movement of the LoP. BJP Morchas and Cells were asked to take the campaign to the grassroots level across Jammu and Kashmir.
He also shared that the two spokespersons Ankur Sharma, and Zorawar Singh Jamwal would assist senior leaders in the primary work on the matter. Sunil Sharma, in his address, accused the National Conference government of having “completely failed” to address the aspirations and expectations of the youth of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that despite raising hopes among young people during the elections, the NC government demonstrated a lack of vision regarding employment generation and youth empowerment. “The youth of Jammu and Kashmir feel betrayed. While the government has distanced itself from its promises of regular recruitment and transparent appointments, it has instead opened the door to backdoor entries under the new nomenclature of ‘outsourcing’,” Sunil Sharma said.
He cautioned that similar to previous exploitative arrangements that kept thousands of educated youth trapped in insecure and poorly paid engagements without any long-term career prospects, the present outsourcing model would further jeopardise the future of another generation of young people. Warning the government against proceeding with such policies, the Leader of Opposition said that if the National Conference government failed to reverse, what the BJP considered, “a backdoor recruitment mechanism”, the party would intensify its agitation and take the fight from the legislature to the streets in defence of the rights and future of the youth of Jammu and Kashmir.
