Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 22: JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla today expressed dismay over the paucity of essentials in J&K, saying the administration seems to have turned blind eye to the woes of people.
While interacting with aggrieved people of Rajiv Nagar, New Plot, Janipur, Bhour Pind on Thursday, Bhalla said that there was a crisis like situation in J&K due to unavailability of the basic essentials and the administration has failed to live up to its obligation of ensuring people all basic civic amenities and essentials. He said the curtailment of water and power supply has compounded the woes of people across Jammu and Kashmir due to the ongoing summer season.
“Administration has also failed to have an anticipatory price control mechanism in its strategy to deal with the exorbitant price rise of basic commodities. The absence of administration on ground has emboldened the willfulness of wrongdoers,” he added.
Bhalla further said that undergoing inflation of food, vegetables, and other items has inadvertently hit the pockets of the lower middle class and middle class evenly. “We expect the administration to wake from the slumber and ensure that people don’t have to suffer any further. It is the primary duty of the administration to check price rise. In addition to that the divisional and the district administration should ensure affordable rates of all essentials,” he asserted.
Drawing the attention of the administration towards the plight of people due to the prolonged and unscheduled power cuts, Bhalla said that the power infrastructure continues to be in shambles at various places particularly in far-flung areas. He stressed on protecting the secular countenance of the country from the dangers of communalism and hate politics.
Bhalla claimed that people are suffering for want of basic amenities and there is none to listen to the suffering public, seeking adequate power, water supply, medicare and power connectivity. The unemployed youth are on roads and the daily wagers and contractual without wages for several months and even years with an apathetic regime averse to their woes. Resentment against Govt is at its peak against rising prices which have made the lives of people miserable. But still, the BJP is in celebration mode,” Bhalla exclaimed.
Prominent among those present on the occasion include Kanta Bhan, Raj Kumar Meenia, Vijay Sharma, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Yashpal Sagral, Ajay Kumar, Subash Chander, Dharminder Bhardwaj, Koushalya Devi, Tilak Raj Kalotra and others.
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