Trade, tourism, transport suffer heavy losses: Cong

* Bureaucracy no alternative to elected Govt

Excelsior Correspondent

ANANTNAG, June 30: The Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) has alleged that trade, tourism, transport and education sectors have suffered heavy losses while Covid pandemic has added more losses of the general public in J&K.
In a meeting of Block presidents and prominent workers held today the party leadership reviewed the organizational affairs and activities in Anantnag and Kulgam districts.
JKPCC also debated and discussed the current situation, besides the problems confronting people also came under discussion, terming the absence of elected Govt in J&K as very sad and unfortunate.
JKPCC president Ghulam Ahmad Mir reviewed the organizational affairs and activities in twin districts of Anantnag & Kulgam, besides holding threadbare discussions over the hardships confronting people in absence of elected Govt.
Mir also received feedback from the party workers with regard to issues especially developmental in both districts, regretting that the tall claims made by the Govt from to time have fallen flat, as that there was a huge disconnect to be seen between people and the administration, which was source behind non execution of developmental works and non-implementation of other Govt decisions of public importance, he said.
Bureaucracy could not be alternative to elected Govt in which the elected representatives were bound to remain accountable and answerable to people, more significantly the Govt remain reachable to common people to listen and address their grievances, but sadly everything has changed since the dissolution of the J&K Legislature, leading to the chaos and confusion across J&K, PCC chief rued.
Mir said Congress will continue to oppose anti- people and wrong decision of the Govt, besides highlighting people’s needs for their resolution.
He expressed serious concern over the losses caused to trade, tourism, transport, education and other sectors and said the Pandemic added more losses to these sectors, emphasizing the Govt to take effective measures to compensate the affected people to ensure that they were able to resume their activities and earn their livelihood.
Senior Party leaders- Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Farooq Ahmad Bhat (DCC presidents), Shaheena Nadaf, Mohd Iqbal Mir, Mushtaq Pahalgami, Block presidents and prominent leaders also addressed the meeting.