Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Sept 3: Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today said that National Conference is poised for big victory in elections to the Legislative Assembly scheduled next year at the strength of performance of Omar Abdullah led Government during past nearly five years.
Interacting with media persons here, the Provincial President said the Government has laid sound basis for infrastructural development in all the three regions of the State.
To a question on steps taken to eradicate corruption, Mr Rana said he cannot claim that the menace has been wiped out but certainly effective steps have been taken to enforce transparency and accountability in the administration besides empowering the people with right to ask. In this context, he referred to the activation of State Accountability Commission, setting up of State Information Commission and State Vigilance Commission besides enactment Right to Information Act and Public Service Guarantee Act.
“These measures are essentially aimed at ensuring transparency and enforcing accountability in the administration”, he said adding that RTI gives right to people to ask. “A common man cannot only seek information from the Government departments but top executives of the administration have also been made accountable to the people”, he said.
Mr Rana described PSGA as a revolutionary measure that makes it mandatory for the service providing department to dispose off the grievances of people in a time bound manner. “This is heartening that several states across the country are emulating the Act pioneered by the Jammu and Kashmir Government under the sagacious stewardship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah”, he maintained.
On being asked about functioning of the coalition, the Provincial President said National Conference-Congress alliance is best model across the country. He compared the Omar Abdullah led coalition with the previous coalitions between 2002-05 and 2005-08 in the state and said while during the tenure of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, discord had become routine with Congress ministers walking-out from Cabinet meetings quite often, the tenure of Ghulam Nabi Azad witnessed PDP missing no opportunity to pull out the Government. Being a coalition partner, PDP behaved like a main opposition, he added.
Mr Rana said there can be differences of opinion in true democratic spirit but on the whole the NC-Cong alliance has worked extremely well and is engaged in steering the state to peace, progress and prosperity.
Later, several deputations met the Provincial President and apprised him various problems. He assured that these will be taken up at appropriate level for earnest action.
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