Jammu, JAN 3: Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Additional General Secretary and former Minister has said that the development works started during the National Conference governance in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir have been brought to a standstill under the incumbent Govt. Moreover the overall developmental scenario existing today is hopeless and highly deplorable, he added.
He expressed this while addressing a meeting of NC functionaries of District Udhampur Urban held at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan, Jammu.
The meeting began with the NC District President Udhampur Urban Sunil Verma apprising the senior functionaries of party about the problems being faced by people of the area and failure of the authorities to address the same despite approaching them repeatedly.
Ajay Kumar Sadhotra observed that the development works started during the National Conference governance in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir have been brought to a standstill under the incumbent Govt. Moreover the overall development scenario existing today is hopeless so much so that the pace of progress on the so called prestigious projects like the much hyped Devika project is quite clumsy and still far from completion.
The senior NC leader said that the Union Territory Administration has been clamoring a lot about its industrial policy bringing a paradigm transformation in industrial sector thus giving a push to economy and employment to just create a false narrative. However, the fact remains that majority of industries in J&K especially in Udhampur are at the verge of closure, while many industries stand already closed. He said that the road project from Ramnagar to Basantgarh continues to be in doldrums with its completion nowhere in sight.
He said that the incumbent Administration is not serious even about the health of the people which is evident from the fact that the Health Centres are running without doctors especially in rural and far flung areas likewise the condition of Ration supplies and electricity is also worst. He asserted that the incumbent Govt in J&K exemplifies the worst form of governance leaving the people to the mercy of God.
Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, Jammu, in his address on the occasion, accused the Govt of depriving the people of J&K of fundamental rights by not holding ULB, Panchayat and Assembly polls in this Union Territory in which is their constitutional right.
Reacting to JP Nadda’s visit to Jammu on Jan 7, Rattan Lal mocked the BJP National President for confining his visit to Lok Sabha polls while maintaining a criminal silence on holding ULB ,Panchayat and Assembly polls which are already due.
Accusing the BJP of adopting unconstitutional methods to delay ULB, Panchayat and Assembly polls in J&K, the senior JKNC leader asserted that BJP has adopted delay tactics on the aforesaid polls due to fear of suffering an unprecedented defeat and debacle due to its utter misgovernance in J&K. He claimed that BJP is not at all in a condition to contest Assembly polls. He accused the BJP of depriving the people in J&K of their fundamental rights by not holding the elections which goes very much against the basic tenets of democracy.
Abdul Gani Malik Zonal President Udhampur Reasi and former minister JKNC said that people are anxiously waiting for the announcement of Assembly elections in J&K by the ECI and they will definitely teach the BJP a lesson. He asserted that people know well that only NC can address their issues and they will overwhelmingly vote in favour of National Conference candidates. He asked the people to further strengthen the hands of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah.
Prominent among those who were present in the meeting include Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Provincial Secretary, Ayub Malik Provincial Secretary, Vijay Lochan Chairman SC Cell, Abdul Gani Teli Chairman OBC Cell, Satwant Kour Dogra P.P Women Wing, Rakesh Singh Raka Vice President Central Zone, Capt. Pavitar Singh, Moti Ram Sharma, Capt Balbir Singh, Akash Verma, Sanjay Verma, Sajad Ahmed, Sunita Mehra, Savitri Devi, Radha Devi, Ruksana Begum, Sham Lal, S. Gurmeet Singh, Kishore Sadhotra, Krishan Lal, Bishan Dass, Mashamber Dass, Jagdiv Singh, Simran, Karnail Chand, Shoket Ali, Mohd Mushtaq, Manmohan Verma and others.
