Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 2: Former minister and senior vice president of Apni Party, Ghulam Hassan Mir today said that the Apni Party’s path-breaking work has opened up a new era of hope among the people of Jammu and Kashmir who were disappointed with the traditional political parties.
“Apni Party’s two and half years role was path breaking because it took lead to resolve issues of the people of J&K including employment, protection to land, and other issues,” said Mir addressing a provincial level meeting of Apni Party leaders and workers in Gandhi Nagar here today.
The meeting also reviewed organizational structure and present political scenario in J&K while discussing the Apni Party’s role to shape the future of the people who have developed a feeling of alienation with the LG administration.
Mir said that the people want restoration of Statehood and holding of Assembly elections in J&K as early as possible so that a popular Govt replaces the LG rule to end the suffering of the common masses.
Referring to other political parties, Mir said, “When these political parties were not ready to represent the people of J & K, we came out to highlight issues being confronted by the distressed people. We continued to work for the people and highlight their issues for early redressal when others were criticizing us.”
“We raised concerns of the people regarding protection of land, employment for the locals etc and got it protected. However, other political parties too followed us and raised the same issues,” he claimed.
“In fact, the other political parties tried to create disturbance in Jammu and Kashmir with a misinformation campaign with regard to the preparation of the electoral roll. However, the Apni Party again came forward and raised the issue with the Govt of India following which a clarification was issued that denied the false claims made by the other political parties,” he said.
“We are committed to provide free of cost 500 units of electricity during winter in Kashmir and summers in Jammu. 300 units of free electricity during summers in Kashmir and winter season in Jammu region.”
He further said that the Party will enhance the widow pension up to Rs 5000 and provide four free cooking gas cylinders per year under Ujjwala Scheme.
Prominent among those who attended the meeting included general secretary, Vijay Bakaya, Provincial president Jammu, Manjit Singh, senior leaders- Arun Chibber, Dr Rohit Gupta, Ex-MLA Prem Lal, Ajaz Kazmi, Saleem Alam, ML Chalotra and others.
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