STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Asking PDP-BJP Government to shun anti-youth policies, Provincial President, Devender Singh Rana on Thursday said National Conference will fight tooth and nail clandestine politicisation and commercialisation of jobs under the garb of new recruitment policy.
“The very intent of the policy is malicious, which is why Governor N. N Vohra has returned back the draft ordinance after appreciating its fall out on future of the youth and in deference to the concern expressed by National Conference”, Rana said at a felicitation function held to honour Dharamveer Singh Jamwal as District President Jammu Urban of the party at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan this afternoon.
The participants also welcomed the newly District Presidents of the parent organisation for Ramban and Rajouri besides the reconstituted team of the Provincial Youth National Conference.
Rana termed the PDP-BJP government as alliance of convenience and not conviction and accused it of performance inertia. Having failed on account of deliverance and realising the political uncertainty ahead due to their inherent contradictions, the coalition wants to derive as much as it can be resorting to destabilisation of well established intuitions to further their agenda. He described the new job policy as one such measure to indulge in favouritism and nepotism. “It is time for the PDP-BJP duo not to stick to false prestige on job policy and read writing on the face of unabated resentment shown by unemployed youth across the state”, he added.
Rana appreciated the enormity of unemployment problem and said this should not be seen through political prism. “The political class as a whole must rise above politics and find ways and means to secure the future of educated unemployed”, he said and questioned motives and rationale behind the policy.
Urging newly appointed functionaries of the parent organisation and its youth wing to gear up for meeting the enormous challenge posed in the wake of anti-people policies of the present dispensation, Rana said the party cadre has to generate massive awareness about the governmental failure in satiating the urges of the people. He expressed concern over delay in releasing salaries, old age pension, retrenching of Anganwadi workers and casual appointees besides dilapidated condition of roads and asked the cadre to highlight these so that the conscience of the government is invoked.
Rana expressed anguish over vitiating the peaceful atmosphere, heralded and sustained by the previous government during the past four years, due to wrong policies pursued by the government in the past two months and said this has belied the hopes of the people. “They are feeling sense of deprivation and demoralisation”, he added.
The Provincial President warned the reactionary political forces that National Conference will not allow repeat of 2008 like situation and strive for an atmosphere where the three regions will grow collectively and harmoniously.