Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 2: Senior Congress leader and former Minister, Raman Bhalla has strongly condemned the arbitrary, callous and mindless action of J&K Administration to intimidate residents of Gandhi Nagar Housing Colony for vacating frontal strips of their plots on the ground of encroachment.
While interacting with the locals of Gandhi Nagar, Bhalla described this unlawful and whimsical action of the Housing Board as yet another anti-people & anti-Jammu action of the UT administration and said that instead of improving the living conditions in Gandhi Nagar Colony and elsewhere in Jammu, the authorities are terrorizing the people creating undue uncertainty among the peace loving nationalist people of Jammu.
A matter of over 60 years is being used to harass the residents, which is unjustified by any count or reason. Bhalla said while the people in all over the UT are suffering for want of services and governance, the authorities have picked up 60 year old matter to divert the actual issue of poor governance and failure on proving any modern civic facility to the people.
Instead of devoting time in creating underground sewerage system and upgrading decade-old infrastructure like roads, public parks, street lights and sanitation, the Housing Board and Municipal Corporation have evolved a diversionary tactics to coerce the residents to part with their land. Bhalla said that such type of arbitrary action and harassment to the people Jammu is the natural fall out of abrogation of Article 370 as nobody is listening to people problems.
Bhalla lashed out at BJP leaders for being mute spectator of this type of public harassment and demolishing boundary walls of the houses without any notice. Jammu people have seen the true colour of BJP and their policies. This has happed not only on Gandhi Nagar but also in Sainik Colony, Channi Himmat and other city localities. Extending full support to the residents of Gandhi Nagar Colony, the Congress leader asked the Lt Governor to direct the authorities to immediately stop harassing people and if ever there is no available record of registry and allotment letters, the matter should be resolved by regularizing this additional strip as had been done in many other colonies.
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