Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 27: National Conference today stated that spiraling food and fuel prices are hurting people across Jammu and Kashmir and the ruling BJP is robbing the poor of their hard earned money to plug in surmounting fiscal deficit.
While expressing concern over the sky rocketing prices of petrol and LPG, Party general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar said that the people are baffled by the soaring prices of essential commodities including petrol, LPG and other food items. He said the hike in the prices of petrol, and LPG has anguished the people across the board.
“It is highly distressing how the incumbent ruling BJP has chosen to profit from people’s miseries and problems, particularly at a time when the country is slowly coming out of the rampage induced by COVID-19,” he said, adding, at a time when the country in general and J&K in particular is witnessing pervasive unemployment, systematic erosion of wages and household income, we have a Government that has blindfolded itself to the runaway inflation and an unprecedented rise in the price of almost all household items, and essential commodities.
“Lack of a popular Government and falling of reigns of administration into the hands of unrelated bureaucracy unaware of people’s grievances has further compounded the woes of people. Long term political void has been a major detrimental factor in the failure of the administration to rise up to its obligations,” Sagar added.
While ruing the abject failure of the administration to rise up to the expectations of the people of J&K, Sagar said, “The public trust in the coterie of unrelated officials running the Government is low on account of having no stake in the decision making process. Besides that the long-term representation gap has broken the effective two-way mechanism of communication system between people and the Government,” he said.
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