Jammu: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday exuded confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP will emerge victorious in the Nagrota assembly bypoll, which has witnessed a transformation in the last 11 years.
Speaking to reporters here, Singh said that Nagrota was a “backward and remote area”, but a network of roads has been established.
“The BJP’s victory here is assured. It is the character and practice of the BJP that for us, elections remain an opportunity for public outreach. It is necessary for us to explain the situation to the youth, as they may not be aware of what it was like here before 2002. Nagrota used to be a very backward and remote area. Today, a network of roads has been laid here,” the Union Minister said.
He further accused the previous governments of “discriminating” against people from the Nagrota region and stated that the landscape in the region has undergone a complete transformation over the last 11 years.
“The demand for development never even arose because previous governments had discriminated against the people of this region. However, over the last 11 years, the landscape here has undergone a significant transformation. I am confident that the people here are determined to be part of that journey of development,” Singh said.