Vibodh termed new Assembly seats a milestone towards political empowerment.

SHYAM SOOD
RAJOURI FEBRUARY 11:– Vibodh Gupta, BJP J&K State General Secretary has termed the creation of new Assembly seats (constituencies) as a historic milestone toward s political empowerment.
“The Election commission of India’s recent initiative on the delimitation & creation of new assembly seats is a historic milestone towards empowerment of marginalised areas of J&K,” said Vobodh Gupta.
He was addressing a massive function at Kallar (Rajouri) organised by the members of the Schedule Tribe Community of the area having full faith in the able leadership of Prime Minister Modi that, according to them, has helped in transforming their lives.
“Successive governments of the State have ignored the ST communities in the past and had not paid any attention towards mitigating their plight. Instead, they used these communities as vote banks,” said Gupta.
“It was only under the leadership of PM, Modi that the Forest Rights Act has been implemented in the entire J&K that has given special rights to all the nomadic communities, and now they are living much better and a dignified life” he added.
In the long term this Act will transform the lives of these people as well as their future generations, said Vibodh Gupta.
While referring to the delimitation process, Vibodh said that for a long time people of different parts of J&K were treated differently and were denied equal representation.
Vibodh welcome the report of the delimitation commission and step for the creation of new assembly constituencies.
“This step has politically empowered all those poor and weaker sections of society which were never given due representation in the political process,” said Vibodh.
BJP district president also addressed the gathering and said: “Central Government has made so many schemes for the welfare of ST community and other poor and marginalised sections of the society and it is their right and should get benefits of these schemes”.
He asked the local BJP leaders to educate the people about these schemes & ensure that the benefits of these schemes must reach to all the eligible beneficiaries.
Sarpanch Babu Ram; Ex Sarpanch, Vinod Sharma; Capt (retd) Ashok kumar; Javid Ahmed, Mohd Sadiq, Bashir Ahmed , Rathan Lal, Prathim Singh, Shamshar Singh were among others present in the function.