Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 13: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today asked the Central Government to change its hard nosed attitude towards Jammu and Kashmir and restore its special status for the furtherance of peace and prosperity in the region.
Party’s members of Parliament, Mohd Akbar Lone and Hassnain Masoodi while interacting with scores of workers ,who had called on them from different areas of north and south Kashmir, said that the brewing political uncertainty and chaos at all levels of administration, was a direct outcome of the measures undertaken by the ruling BJP on August 5.
They said the measures far from putting the region on the track of development, has undone the achievements of all the previous successive popular Governments in J&K. The measures undertaken unilaterally on August 5 last year, they said, haven’t been feared well in any region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The MPs also said the Local Body elections can not be a substitute to a fully functional legislature of a State. The Government machinery, they said, has miserably failed to cope up with the development demands of the people, who they said have never felt so dejected before as they are feeling now on account of the Government’s failure to attend to their day to day issues.
“The recent snowfall is a point in case. Despite the predictions, the administration, like always, was again caught napping. It is shocking to see how the predictions were left unheeded by nothing putting the men and machinery on alert to rise to the exigencies in wake of heavy snowfall. Even at the very onset of winters the administration failed to grab the opportunity to stock all essential items in Kashmir division.
Today people are hankering for basic edibles in upper reaches. The scarcity of LPG, Kerosene oil is miserably felt. The pesky water and electricity supply has added to the woes of people. There are areas where people have been without electricity and water for days. Primary/ secondary health care centers across Kashmir also narrate a grimy state of affairs. There is no accountability on ground, they said.
The MPs assured the workers that they will raise their grievances at all appropriate forums.
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