‘Delimitation draft report biased’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 22: Congress today strongly flayed the UT administration and BJP for the indifferent attitude towards the daily wagers, need based and other casual workers and demanded immediate framing and implementation of regularization policy for them. The party also opposed water tax on rural population besides seeking full package to refugees of 1947, 1965 & 1971.
Addressing press conference at party office here today, Congress lashed out at the Government for the brutal lathi-charge on the peacefully protesting daily wagers, on Monday and blamed the BJP leadership of betraying these daily wagers and other categories of workers. They were given false promises of regularization by the BJP before assembly elections but after coming power with massive mandate, they betrayed them.
JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla and chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma along with general secretaries Yogesh Sawhney and Manmohan Singh, flayed the BJP leadership, especially former Ministers/Legislators and sitting MPs for their failure to side with the people in difficult times after seeking huge mandate from them.
The senior party leaders said that these people were engaged from time to time by the concerned officers and officials to run various water, power supply schemes and to run emergency services but after decades of services, they are not even regularly paid their wages and not regularized. Even those who donated their valuable lands for Govt institutions, PHE & Irrigation Schemes are not paid their wages. Congress demanded immediate framing and implementation of regularization policy and clearing of their arrears of wages besides regularization policy for NRHM, Contractual, academic and other temporary employees working for decades.
The Congress leadership also raised the issue of imposition of water tax on rural areas and termed it as a cruel act, when people are already economically distressed due to unprecedented price hike, lack of earnings during Covid-19 and other factors, especially lack of regular water supply. The Govt has failed to provide regular water supply in most rural areas and in several areas, there is totally irregular, erratic and un reliable water supply but Govt. has imposed tax per water tap and demanded roll back of the anti- people decisions.
They also criticized the order mandating permission for constructing/ repair of houses/cattle sheds in villages where there is hardly any proper Govt. service or development. The farmers are being punished by this Govt and rural population shall face undue harassment.
The party also strongly raised the issue of POJK refugees who feel cheated and betrayed. They demanded package as per recommendations of the then Congress Govt in J&K and as per JPC recommendations.
Meanwhile, Congress criticized the BJP for playing with the sentiments of people of J&K UT and severely rejected the draft proposal prepared by the Delimitation Commission on the behest of ruling government at the Centre.
While speaking at Congress rally held at Ploura in Jammu and organised by District Congress Committee Rural, president Hari Singh Chib, the senior party leaders alleged that Delimitation report was biased and BJP betrayed each section of society.
These party leaders said that the draft report lacks political, social and administrative reason to justify the recommendations. They said earlier it was claimed that the delimitation exercise was being undertaken to make Assembly seats contiguous with the district. But the draft report is showing a different picture altogether.
“The BJP is a strange party that is making tall claims without doing anything. The double engine government of the BJP has harassed every section of society and has not done anything itself but has been appearing in advertisements claiming the works of the Congress party as its own,” they added.
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