Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Mar 15: Apni Party provincial president, Jammu and former Minister, Manjit Singh today said that his party believed in economic upliftment to upgrade the living standard of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The former Minister was addressing a workers meeting when he referred to the underdevelopment, increasing unemployment, feeling of alienation with the present administration etc.
The workers meeting was organized by district president, Legal Cell, Samba, Sahil Bharti in Ramgarh.
“The people have lost hope with the present Government due to its disconnection with the people on ground. The administration has failed to take up the works in hand suggested by the people in the back to village programmes which has kept the people in the rural belt in an extremely underdeveloped situation with no proper road connectivity, improper health and educational institution infrastructure,” he said.
He said that the Apni Party has repeatedly demanded holding of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir so that the concern of the people can be redressed.
“The bureaucracy is not answerable to the people and hence, their work is not being questioned and the people are facing harassment for one reason or other,” he said.
He also questioned the anti-encroachment drive in which the poor and marginalized section of society were forced out of their land they cultivated for decades.
He said that all the anti-people decisions and policies which were against the general masses will be reversed once the Apni Party forms the next Government in Jammu and Kashmir.
District president Legal Cell, Sahil Bharti also spoke on the occasion and assured the people that they will provide 500 units of free electricity and 300 units of electricity in Jammu during Summer and Winter seasons respectively.
He also said that if they form the next Government, they will enhance widow pension / old age pension up to Rs 5000 per month and also give four cooking gas cylinders per year to each family under Ujjawala.
He raised the concern of the farmers who complained about the poor irrigation facilities.
Bharti said that the farmers were not getting canal water at the tail-end villages in border areas of Ramgarh.
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