Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 21: Expressing her anger over the non-availability of basic amenities to the residents of Jammu city, senior Congress leader and former MLA Indu Pawar has regretted that woes of the common masses are compounding with every passing day and those at the helm of affairs are non-serious to solve peoples’ issues.
Addressing a series of public meetings in Ward number 4 of Jammu Municipal Corporation, arranged by Rajat Jamwal in connection with the party’s mass contact programme, ex-Mahila Congress president, Pawar said all achievements of the BJP-led administration are only on papers but on the ground people are struggling to get basic amenities like potable water and power.
“Residents of Jammu city are facing multiple civic problems due to the casual approach of the authorities. Various schemes announced and launched by the Government during the last nine years confined only to papers”, she said while pointing towards deplorable conditions of lanes and drains in the walled city.
“This monsoon season has exposed tall claims of the BJP-led Jammu Municipal Corporation and BJP-controlled administration in the Union Territory”, she said and called upon the people to come on the streets to agitate for getting basic amenities like drinking water, electricity and other civic amenities.
Pawar further said that the JMC has added the woes of the poor masses by allowing the imposition of Property Tax, and the installation of electric smart meters to suck the blood of the poor people.
“Congress will not remain as a mute spectator to the anti-people policies being propagated by the BJP-controlled administration”, she asserted and added that the party has already launched a mass contact programme to oppose such policies of the Government.
People of Ward No. 4 also staged a protest against Smart Metres, Property Tax which is burning issue of Jammu people. Public is highly dissatisfied. Those who spoke on the occasion included Bhanu Gupta, Ritu Choudherym Tamanna, Chander Shekher Sharma and Ramakant Khjauria.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel