Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 25: Senior vice president of Peoples Conference and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil today said that the current administration has failed to do justice to the aspirations of the common masses of Jammu and Kashmir and there is urgent need to restore democracy in the Union Territory.
Vakil was addressing party workers’ convention, here today. The Convention was presided over by Mohan Lal Radha (district president, Jammu).
While addressing the gathering, Vakil said that the people of J&K have been denied their constitutional right to elect a popular government to run the state of affairs.
The former minister said it is a matter of utter shame that in a great democracy, a region has been denied its right to choose their own government while the administration has been outsourced to bureaucrats brought in from different states and installed in Jammu and Kashmir,” Vakil said.
“Lt Governor-led bureaucratic administration has failed at all levels. Anganwadi workers are demanding release of their wages and have been protesting for weeks now and administration is watching as a mute spectator. Unemployment is at an all-time high and recruitments are nowhere but recruitment scams are at an all-time high,” Vakil added.
Vakil stressed on the Union Government to start working towards holding polls in J&K which are long overdue so that government elected by its own people can run the UT affairs as installed system by them is failing on the ground.
Addressing the gathering, senior PC leader and ex-MP Nazir Ahmad Laway stressed upon the LG Manoj Sinha to resolve the genuine grievances of Kashmiri Pandits who have been protesting from months together now.
Besides others, those who addressed the gathering include Rattan Lal (Youth district president Jammu) and Mahila leader Renu Bala.
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