Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today staged a protest demonstration against the implementation of anti-people National Food Security Act that has not only deprived a huge chunk of population much needed ration support but is causing enormous difficulties on various counts.
The demonstrators, led by provincial vice president Chander Mohan Sharma and Dharamveer Singh Jamwal District president Jammu Urban raised protests against the administration at busy Indira Chowk and proceeded towards the Civil Secretariat. However, heavy contingent of police stopped the protestors by raising barricades.
Addressing the agitated NC workers, Mr Sharma described the Act as anti-poor and anti-people, saying no thought has been given by the previous PDP-BJP Government while thrusting upon this measure in the State. “National Conference had all along opposed this Act, as it had all the potential to put public interest in jeopardy”, Mr Sharma said, adding that meager three kilograms of wheat per soul instead of ten kilograms of Atta earlier has made a huge difference.
He said the Government has put the rationed population in miseries who will have to look for Chakkis, which hardly exist anywhere in the urban and semi urban areas. He also gave a demonstration of the Chaki, saying this is how the people will have to fend for managing their two-end meals.
Mr Dharamveer Singh Jamwal castigated the PDP-BJP dispensation, saying implementation of NFSA has been latest in the series of anti-poor measures. He said the nightmarish era of the erstwhile mis-rule has forced the people to come to streets for justice.
Senior leaders KD Singh, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Subash Bhagat, Ashwani Charak, Sucha Singh, Sanjay Gupta and Mohd Shabeer were also present.
Meanwhile, State vice president of National Conference Kashmira Singh strongly opposed the implementation of National Food Security Act and described it as anti-poor.
Th Kashmira Singh questioned the wisdom in providing wheat instead of Atta and that too, in reduced scale and quantity, saying how consumers could get it grinded when there were no facilities in urban, semi urban and even some rural areas. He urged the Governor’s administration to rollback in view of massive public resentment.
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