Jammu, Oct 22 (UNI) Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday said the results of the recently-held Urban Local Body elections clearly indicated that people of the sState, particularly in Jammu region, had punished the Opposition parties for unreasonably maligning the BJP and its top leadership, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an informal interaction with PhD and Research Scholars from Jammu University, who felicitated him for setting up an ISRO Centre here, Dr Singh said, "Congress and its allies like National Conference, are still trapped in the past while the times have moved ahead".
He said the state and local leaders of these Parties continuously sought to rake up public passions by raising emotive issues to target BJP, without realizing that 70 percent of the population today comprises youth who are well informed and give credence to the evidence of enormous development and transformative work happening on the ground.