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NAGROTA: Provincial President National Conference, Devender Singh Rana on Friday took PDP-BJP coalition head on for its failure in meeting even basic minimum expectations of the people, saying the administrative inertia has terribly impacted each sphere of life.
“The government is a non-starter as it has not yet molded itself in governing mode”, Rana said while addressing a workers meeting at Dhanu in the Nagrota Assembly Constituency, adding people’s accumulated problems and woes have taken menacing proportions with administration showing least concern or seriousness towards solving these.
He said that the government is working at cross purposes and ideological trauma between the coalition partners has transformed it into a rudderless ship. “One hand does not really know what other is doing”, he said adding that the confusion and chaos prevailing at administratively level speaks volumes about the situation developing in near future. “The end sufferers would obviously be the poor people of this State”, he said.
The Provincial President made a specific mention of erratic power supply across the Jammu region and said frequent disruption in scorching summer months is unbearable for the people. He demanded enhanced power procurement to meet the growing demand and cautioned the government to shun its dilly dally attitude. The utility services ought to have got priority attention but the coalition partners appear to be unconcerned. “This is appalling, unacceptable”, he observed.
Rana recalled the dreams shown by the coalition government over hundred days ago and said the hollowness of these is galore, be it meeting the challenge posed by flash floods and incessant rains or taking the developmental initiative forward. Instead of getting engaged in enhancing quality of life of the people, the PDP and BJP have entangled themselves in numberless controversies that have shadowed the normal life. “What the State achieved in the past six years has been negated in split seconds”, he said while regretting that due to reckless policies peace and development has been made a huge causality. He said the people have been paying huge price for reposing their trust in the parties which are too self-centered. “They have forged alliance just for lust of power and not serving the people, which has been proven in immense measure”, he maintained.
Responding to the issues raised by the people during his visit to the Constituency, Rana assured that he will take up these at appropriate levels to ensure that needful is done in a time bound manner. “If the government is in sleeping mode, we will make it to wake up and perform”, he said and urged the party workers to keep highlighting the problems confronted to the people. He said that as a representative of the constituency, he will not compromise with the public interest and make the administration to perform, be it road development, rural upliftment or implementation of various welfare schemes tailored for economic emancipation of the under-privileged segments of the society.
