Excelsior Correspondent
NOWSHERA, Aug 17: Former MLC and chief spokesman of PCC Ravinder Sharma conducted extensive tour of Nowshera and Sunderbani areas of district Rajouri and took stock of the problems of the people.
Addressing meeting of Block Congress Committee at Nowshera and series of interactions with party workers, Sarpanchs, Panchs and other prominent people of the area, Mr Sharma regretted the policies of the State and Centre Government which have resulted into worsening of security scenario in the State and situation on the LoC and Indo-Pak border, resulting into number of casualties.
Mr Sharma said that the intensity of firing incidents on the borders during the 14th months of Modi Government, has broken all past records of over four decades and a very grim situation prevails on the borders. The people all along the LoC and border are in a state of continuous panic and fear of death and loss to the properties.
He said that earlier the Narendra Modi and BJP leadership would react and protest over any such isolated incidents during UPA regime and accused it of a weak Government while the Prime Minister now chose to remain mum during his Independence Day speech on LoC firing. The stated position of India always was that talks, terror and border firing, can’t go together, but the same has not been strongly conveyed to Pakistan, he regretted.
Mr Sharma alleged that the developmental activities of all sorts are standstill and all projects sanctioned and initiated by the previous Government are being deliberately delayed. He questioned the delay in the identification of land for Government Medical Colleges including the one sanctioned for the district Rajouri and demanded that it should be located at Central place. The Congress leader also demanded taking up of the work on grid station at Siot at the earliest and regretted the delay in the opening of six Higher Secondary Schools sanctioned in Nowshera-Sunderbani areas.
The meeting was chaired by Som Nath- working president District Congress Committee. Prominent among others present included Harbans Lal Bakshi, Sarpanch Ch Khalil, S Rajinder Singh, Isher Singh, S Charan Singh, Mahatma Inder Dass, Ramji Dass, Pashori Lal, Ch Rattan Lal, Satya Devi Naib Sarpanch, Suleman Choudhary, Tilak Raj, Sansar Chand, Mangat Ram, Sandip Kumar, Capt Kundan Lal and Bhim Sein.
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