Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 16: Accusing the government for undermining the grassroot democratic institutions by deferring polls, J&K National Conference observed that fearing defeat the party in power has been relying on unfounded alibis to deny the people their right to exercise franchise for holding power. A meeting of Jammu District Urban JKNC was held at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan under the chairmanship of Chander Mohan Sharma, President Jammu District Urban. In the meeting, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Additional General Secretary of JKNC, Rattan Lal Gupta Provincial President JKNC, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Pardeep Bali, Ayub Malik, Abdul Gani Telil, Vijay Lochan, Satwant Kour Dogra, Harshvardhan Singh and Ankush Abrol were present. Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Additional General Secretary JKNC said the people’s suffering under the present government as authoritative dispensation is taking decisions on its own without taking care of the people’s aspirations. He said that people never felt so bad under any regime as they feel today under the so-called Achhe Din Sarkar. Rattan Lal Gupta, in his address, said that there is a big difference in what the BJP government speaks and what it executes on ground. He said that saying that democracy is under siege under the incumbent government is in no way wrong because population in J&K is feeling suffocated under the present proxy rule of the central government in which there is no one to listen to the plight of common man as directions have been broadcasted from New Delhi and implemented in J&K, with no say of people or even the local representatives including those belonging to the ruling party also as number of times BJP leadership raised the issue before its higher command. He said the claims of distributing power among 30,000 people in J&K also seems to be a hollow promise as the tenure of elected representatives has ended and the incumbents have failed to restore democracy by not holding the elections.
Expressing shock and grief over the tragic incident, Rattan Lal Gupta said that government should improve road infrastructure on ground because such tragedies are the testimony to the fact that a lot more has to be done to stop deaths on roads as people are struggling to cope up with poor edifice and insensitive Babugiri prevalent in J&K today
Before the culmination, the meeting also observed two minutes’ silence for people killed in the Doda Accident and prayed to the departed souls rest in peace and the National Conference stands in solidarity with the bereaved families.
Those who were present Raghvir Singh Manhas District President Jammu Rural A, Lakhshmi Datta, Dilshad Malik, Rakesh Singh Raka, Rashida Begum, Som Raj Taroch, Dr. Vikas Sharma, Farman Ali, Anoop Sharma, Shabir Sambyal, Ashwani Charak, Sardar Gurnam Singh, Sardar Parvinder Singh, Dharminder Sharma, Sardar Nirmal Singh, Sardar Tejinder Singh, Sardar Sandeep Singh Wazir, Sahil Kerni and others.
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