Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU Dec 12 : Provincial president of National Conference for Jammu, Rattan Lal Gupta has asked the party cadre to gear up for the upcoming Urban Local Body (ULB) polls.
He was addressing a meeting of Jammu Urban NC Unit at party office in Jammu today. The meeting was organized by Chander Mohan Sharma, District president Jammu Urban (NC).
Gupta alleged that the Jammu Municipal Corporation has become the den of corruption and the people are fed up of the poor performance given by the incumbent helmsman running the municipality. Rattan Lal further alleged that the Municipal Corporation has miserably failed to address civic issues in Jammu and change of guard by the BJP leadership at the fag-end is testimony to the fact that everything was not good in running the affairs of the JMC.
The NC leader alleged that siphoning of funds and unproductive expenditure made by the municipality in Jammu unproductive and therefore it is the time for the National Conference activists to expose all these facts before the people to garner their support and win the aforesaid polls. He also alleged that JMC’s Mohalla Dispensaries are not functioning properly and there are number of flaws in the working of these utmost important public health facilities.
The Provincial president asserted that so-called initiative My Town My Pride is nothing but merely an eye wash to fool the public. He said that there has been no development on ground about which the Government has been making tall claims. In fact the people are decrying for basic amenities besides tormented by receiving false and hefty power bills, he added.
He asked the NC cadre to gird up loins to make a mark in the forthcoming ULB polls as the chances of the party are bright this time.
Prominent among others who spoke include Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Jugal Mahajan, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Satwant Kour Dogra, Pardeep Bali, Ayub Malik, Vijay Laxmi Dutta, AK Attri, Ghar Singh and others.
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