Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 12: Expressing serious concern over the miserable plight of lockdown hit stranded people in various parts of the country, Chairman Peoples Democratic Front (PDF), Hakeem Yaseen has said that the hardships confronting migrant labourers and stranded people need to be tackled on compassionate grounds, without politicing it.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hakeem Yaseen said that the people especially the migrant labourers and students stuck in various parts of the country and abroad have been caught in a terrible situation of uncertainty and despire being far off from their near and dear ones, in a strange atmosphere with empty pockets. “One should imagine the severity of mental agony, the stranded people have been subjected to due to unprecedented lockdown,” Hakeem Yaseen has stated while urging the State and Central Governments to take effective measures to mitigate sufferings of stranded people, without trying to score political points out of out of this human problem.
He said Governments at the Centre and State levels should immediately press into service all the available means of transportation to ferry stranded people back to their homes and hearths without any further delay. He said Railways, buses and air traffic should be pressed into service for evacuating the stranded people, after devising a workable mechanism for ensuring necessary lockdown protocols during the process of evacuation. “If aeroplanes can be arranged for bringing people from abroad, why domestic flights could not be operated for facilitating the stranded persons within the country to reach their homes?” Hakeem Yaseen questioned.
He called for a thorough investigation into large scale allegations that the helpline numbers established by the Government for facilitating the stranded persons were not functioning properly, thereby causing great convenience to affected people. “This is a serious error which needs to be rectified urgently,” he said.
PDF Chairman also urged the Government to equip the hospitals, especially in rural areas, with adequate men and machinery so that normal process of treatment to routine patients other than Covid-19 effected persons, could be restored, effectively.
PDF Chairman also urged the Government to release all the political prisoners of J&K before Ed-ul-Fitre adding that continued detention and house arrest of political leaders would serve no purpose.
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