Excelsior Correspondent
NAGROTA, Jan 19: Saying that a sensitive State like Jammu and Kashmir cannot afford an indefinite spell of political uncertainty due to indecision of PDP-BJP duo, Provincial President National Conference today pleaded for fresh polls to end the ongoing stalemate.
“The coalition partners have put the State into a piquant situation and there is no option but to go to the people again, who have been left in the lurch”, the Provincial President said during his two-day tour of the nine Panchayat Halqas of Mathwar Block in the Nagrota Assembly Constituency.
Mr Rana lamented over PDP-BJP’s betrayal with the people, saying all promises made ahead of elections and soon after the formation of Government proved hoax. The performance inertia, he said, led to indecision with regard to day to day functioning of the Government with key economic and developmental issues remaining in back-burner.
“It is intriguing why the PDP-BJP combine could not take any decision on key matters which Governor N. N Vohra took in just 10 days of gubernatorial dispensation”, he said, adding that the two parties remained engaged in scoring points over one another and shifting the blame, as a result of which the flood sufferers continue to suffer for want of compensation and much trumpeted about relief. The developmental effort, launched and sustained during the Omar Abdullah led Government, stands halted with the previous Government clueless about how to take forward the state on the path of progress, he maintained.
Referring to indecision of the PDP with regard to formation of Government in the wake of sad demise of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Provincial President hoped that the party shall realize its responsibility towards the people and pave the way for holding fresh elections to the State Assembly.
He said the ten-month PDP-BJP rule will be remembered as nightmare it had nothing to talk about. The political aspirations of our people stood starved of articulation, their voices were trampled and the State’s development has been brought to a grinding halt. He said the youth were staring at an unprecedented situation of unemployment with the Government looking completely clueless.
Mr Rana traced the genesis of Governmental failure to illusions with which the coalition partners were living and said this has adversely affected the governance. “Development had taken nose dive, utility services kept craving for attention, flood sufferers were looking towards minimum possible help while the people in general suffered due to accumulated problems”, he said.
Mr Rana said the people had voted PDP-BJP with much hope which they belied in the fit of being intoxicated in power. “The newly acquired stature had gone to the heads of naïve politicians, who did not know the basics of governance”, he maintained.
During the two-day tour, Mr Rana listened to the problems of people and assured that these will be taken up at appropriate level for earnest redressal. He spelled out the initiatives taken during the past over eleven months in redressing the grievances and putting the constituency on the path of development by synergising and pursuing issues with the respective agencies.
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