Govt responsible for present mess, sufferings of people: Mir

PCC sets up Covid monitoring panels for J&K

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has expressed grave concern over the rising casualties and worsening Covid situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in rest of the country and blamed the Central Government for its total mishandling and  failure to take timely steps to prevent spread of the deadly disease as well to create necessary health facilities to minimise the loss of lives.
In an emergency meeting  chaired by the PCC president, GA Mir and attended by senior leaders Raman Bhalla, Ravinder Sharma, Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Rajnish Sharma, Manmohan Singh, Hari Singh Chib besides others,  the party expressed shock over loss of precious lives and conveyed deep sense of sympathies with all those undergoing these sufferings and loss of near and dear ones.
The meeting felt that India is in worst situation in the entire world mainly due to the failure of of the government to  act timely to prevent the spread of the fatal disease and to create necessary infrastructure and required health facilities in time for the second wave of Covid, which was anticipated to come.
The Modi Government and ruling BJP were more concerned about the elections than the lives of the people, who were left to die on the roads due to lack of beds and oxygen in the government and private hospitals throughout the country.The death was dancing on the roads but the government was busy in ongoing elections in West Bengal and other States including Panchayat elections in UP.
The Union Govt just woke up a couple of days back when situation became out of control. It has been taking steps to create those facilities like oxygen which should have been in place much before. Who is responsible for the man made disaster and loss of lives for failure to provide beds and oxygen, Cong leadership asked the BJP Government.
“In Jammu and Kashmir alone 264 precious lives have been lost this  year including 153 this month alone.  The infrastructure and health facilities have started crumbling in initial stages, the black marketing of oxygen has begun and what would be the fate of people next,” they questioned the UT administration.
The public transport is off the road, causing unbearble loss and avoidable hardships to the common people and government is clueless about the solution with transporters. The government teachers and others are supposed to attend the duties without public transport and in the absence of students in schools.
The PCC constituted two separate Covid Committees for each region to regularly monitor the situation and report to AICC as per direction’s of the party high command. The committee for Jammu  includes former minister Raman Bhalla, as it’s chairman while Balwan Singh, Ex-MLA, Yogesh Sawhney and Ravinder Sharma its members, while Taj Mohuiddin ex- minister (chairman), Mohammad Amin Bhat Ex-MLA, S S Channi general secretary and Abdul Gani Khan DCC president Srinagar shall look after the Kashmir division and report daily to the party high command.