Delay in declaring a state holiday on the birth anniversary of last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on September 23 is snowballing into a big controversy as the ruling BJP is facing ire of people of the Jammu region for “succumbing” to the PDP on the issue. Not only the mainstream political parties, such as the Congress, Panthers Party and NC, have supported the demand, social organisations also took BJP ministers to the task for bartering peoples’ aspirations for power. “The BJP ministers should keep in mind that it is…
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