Sukhnandan visits Samba, Jammu border villages; seeks urgent action on water, electricity crisis

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JAMMU: Former Minister and senior BJP leader Ch. Sukhnandan Kumar on Monday visited several areas in Samba district and the border villages of Jammu district, where residents apprised him of acute hardships due to shortage of drinking and irrigation water.
Villagers also complained about frequent and unscheduled power cuts, which, they said, were severely affecting their ability to safeguard crops. “Without water and electricity, our fields are drying up and farming is becoming impossible,” the locals told the BJP leader.
Ch Sukhanadan visited Ramgarh, Kamore Camp, Nandpur, Dugg, Chimney Chak, Shahpur, Palura Samba and other adjoin places.
Expressing concern over the situation, Ch. Sukhnandan Kumar urged the government to take immediate steps to resolve the crisis. “If the farmer suffers, the entire population will suffer, because without food nothing can be done,” he stressed.
He appealed to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to personally intervene if the Omar Abdullah-led UT government had failed to provide basic amenities to the people. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and LG Manoj Sinha have always been supportive of farmers. I am confident they will find a way to address these prime issues,” he said.
Those who met the former Minister include Ex Sarpanch Vijay Kumar, Ex Sarpanch Jyoti Kumar, Ex Sarpanch Kalidas Choudhary, Ex Mandal Pardhan BJP Shiv Kumar, Ex Sarpanch Om Parkash, Ex Sarpanch Darshan Choudhary, Ex Sarpanch Reena Choudhary, Sanju Randhawa, and Akshay Kumar.