Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: Continuing protests against failure of the PDP-BJP Government in maintaining regulated power and drinking water supply in Jammu region, National Conference activists today staged a massive protest dharna near Press Club here and demanded additional power procurement from Northern Grid to combat the crisis.
The NC workers under the leaderships of District president Jammu Urban, Dharamveer Singh Jamwal assembled near Press Club here in the morning and started protest demonstration. It was followed by dharna. The party workers were shouting slogans against State Government and PDD authorities in the State. They said that water supply position has also deteriorated badly in the city and other parts.
“The insensitive and anti-people Government has turned a blind eye to power and water crisis in the winter capital and its peripheries”, Mr Jamwal said while addressing agitating protesters.
He decried callousness of the Government to inflict miseries to the residents and said neither any Minister nor any senior officer has taken time out from their cool Valley environs to visit Jammu and fix responsibility of those who have been taking sadistic pleasure in putting people to miseries. “The people have a right to know why power cuts remain enforced for longer durations and even for entire nights in various areas”, he said and wondered why no exigency plan had been worked out in advance to meet summer exigencies.
The NC leader complained that apart from pesky power outage and unscheduled cuts, almost entire Jammu is facing alarmingly heavy voltage fluctuations, resulting in massive damage to electronic gadgets like televisions, inverters, refrigerators and air-conditioners. “The Government must compensate these damages”, he said, adding certain areas were reeling under acute power and water scarcity.
The other speakers highlighted crisis like situation in various areas of the city and elsewhere in the Jammu region, saying that certain localities were witnessing complete black-out for nights together. They said the Government has failed in maintaining transformer banks, as a result of which the damaged transformers are replaced after several days.
Prominent among those who participated in the protests included Satwant Kour Dogra, Ch Haroon, Anil Dhar, Pradeep Bali, Abdul Gani Teli, SS Bunty, Rakesh Singh Raka, KD Singh, Dr Tara Chand, Rekha Manhas, Anju Grover, Ravi Dogra, Ashok Singh Manhas, Subash Bhagat, Ashok Dogra, Rohit Bali and others.
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