Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: National Conference took out a protest march here to protest against a total and abject governance failure in the State and lashed out at the PDP-BJP Government for the unprecedented state of chaos and its brazen insensitivity towards the masses.
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Senior NC leaders including party legislators and former ministers led by party general secretary, Ali Mohd Sagar and Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, joined by hundreds of Youth NC activists marched from Party headquarters in Srinagar towards the city centre but were intercepted an detained by the Police for some time.
Speaking on the occasion, the NC general secretary said there was an acute crisis in the delivery of essential supplies and services in the Valley despite the harsh winter weather which should have amounted to more empathy and responsibility from the Administration.
“The power crisis is severe and unprecedented. The State Government’s failure to take concrete steps to increase the carrying capacity of our distribution network and especially their failure to commission the Alistaing Grid Station has amounted to this situation. Hundreds of areas in the Valley have to spend days if not weeks without electricity and even in the metered areas of the cities and towns, the power supply is erratic, unusable due to low voltage and doesn’t follow any pre-announced schedule. The people, especially the ailing and the elderly are suffering on account of this and the State Government is in no mood to pay attention and take corrective steps”, the NC leader said.
NC Provincial chief said the dearth of basic ration supplies at fair price shops and ration depots across the Valley was ample proof of the PDP-BJP Government’s sadistic approach in torturing the people. “Did the Mehbooba Mufti Government not know we had a winter approaching and it needed to take vital measures well in time to alleviate the hardships of the people? Kerosene meant for depots and fair price shops is sold in the open market at exorbitant rates. The Government has collapsed and the people are paying the costs”, Wani said.
YNC Provincial President Salman Ali Sagar also spoke on the occasion and condemned police action.
NC leaders also condemned the killing of a young sumo driver, Asif Ahmed, at Thundipora Kupwara in an incident of firing. Demanding strict and exemplary action against the culprits, the NC leaders said such incidents were adding to the sense of alienation and anguish in the Valley.
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