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| NC-Cong Ministers engage in political pranks; awareness camp ruins | | | Saahil Suhail
ANANTNAG, June 26: After facing worst defeat in recently held Parliamentary elections, two Cabinet Ministers of state Government affiliated with National Conference and Congress, invited public wrath for using political pranks to remain in limelight, alleged locals.
As per details available with Early Times, hundreds of females who today participated in awareness camp organized by Social Welfare department in Dooru area of South Kashmir returned deceived as State Tourism Minister Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Social Welfare Minister Sakeena Itoo hijacked the camp and turned it into a public meeting.
Eyewitness said that senior officials of Health, Social Welfare and Education department were seen flouting all norms and appeasing their political bosses while participating in the public gathering and listening to the political speeches of Ministers.
Sources said that participants mainly pregnant ladies and adolescent girls returned ditched as no monetary benefit was given to them which they were promised.
"We were told that the Ministers will distribute cheques of Rs 1400 each among the pregnant ladies here but till end of the day we waited but they (Ministers) after giving speeches left and no cheques were distributed," a lady told Early Times.
"Since morning they kept us hungry and not allowed us even to buy some eatables from the market. Besides us our infants also remained hungry entire day now at the end we are facing acute shortage of transport," she added with tearful eyes.
General sectary Trade union Shahabad, Ali Mohammad Mantoo of the Dooru town also condemned the hijacking of the official function and said, "It is highly condemnable that political leaders are using deceptive politics for their political gains. I felt petty on those Ministers who lured poor pregnant ladies for monetary benefit and at the end of the day left without honouring the commitment."
Bar Association General Secretary, Advocate Mir Mohammad Hussain too condemned the situation in the aftermath of the function and said that the association will not accept exploitation of sentiments of poor females of the Dooru.
Locals told Early Times that if the politicians didn't change their rhetoric polices, they (Locals) will launch a sustainable campaign against them. "Politicians have adopted this policy for showing that they enjoy support of maximum population of the area and worst affected in child studying in Government run schools," they added.
Despite repeated attempts both the Ministers couldn't be contacted as they didn't respond to repeated calls. However, Director Social Welfare Nisar Hussain Wani refuted the allegations and said, "it was purely an awareness camp organized in collaboration with Education and Health departments. Pregnant ladies or those who had delivered the baby were called in the program as we had to distribute cheques among them under IGMSY scheme."
He said that it was not possible to offer cheques on the spot among 1021 beneficiaries so we have decided to send them the amount in to their banks accounts. |
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