BJP leader and former Army Chief Gen (Retd) V K Singh on Saturday asserted that his party will do well in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections as its main plank is development of the state.
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“I am quite sure that the people, like rest of the country, will choose development as the main plank. The party (BJP) will do extremely well because none of the parties, mainstream or otherwise in Jammu and Kashmir has brought in development for people,” Mr. Singh, who is also Union Minister of State for External Affairs, told reporters here.
Questioning the development claims of successive governments in the state, the BJP leader said “we have seen what kind of development is taking place (in Jammu and Kashmir).
“We have seen what has happened in the recent floods... I can keep narrating incidents to you where the governments have floundered out here,” he said, adding these are the parties which are saying that they want to get maximum seats in the elections.
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“None of them has benefited the people so far and so I think a time has come for the people to choose a party which will stand by them in the developmental needs of the state,” he said.
He said he has come here to meet the people who are in the party and those who are fighting the five-phase Assembly polls, scheduled to begin on November 25.
“I have come here to meet our people who are in the party organisation. I have come here to meet the people who are our candidates and get a feel how things are going,” he said.