NC asks BJP to withdraw if unable to deliver

Accusing the BJP of "ditching" the people of Jammu on several issues, including AIIMS, Opposition National Conference today asked the saffron party to withdraw from the coalition government if it was unable to deliver.
"BJP is in a state of trauma, as its ministers have no idea as to what all was going on in the state," NC provincial President Devender Singh Rana said at a press conference at the party headquarters here, held to welcome former PDP MLC Depender Kour and her supporters in the National Conference.
Replying to a question on the establishment of AIIMS in Jammu, Rana said, "While we welcome the sanctioning of AIIMS for Kashmir, we demand similar institutes for Jammu and Ladakh, keeping in view the topography, population, influx of tourists-cum-pilgrims and the floating population during winter months," he said.

When asked about reported negotiations between some BJP ministers and the stakeholders in Jammu, he said, "Negotiations for what? If, as the BJP says, that the Centre has agreed to have an AIIMS at Jammu, they should immediately issue a notification in this regard and that is about all. This requires no discussions, no negotiations".
He alleged these were delaying tactics of the government in a "clandestine bid" to scuttle the agitation, to create confusion and to defuse the situation at the moment.
"There was no cohesion between words and the actions of the BJP leaders and ministers," Rana said, adding, while the ministers in the Centre are on record having committed AIIMS for Jammu, the other state leaders and ministers were talking in different tunes.

Jammu and Kashmir should not be treated as any other state, given the magnitude of turbulence the people suffered during the past two-and--half decade, he added .