Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 21: National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today said the shrinking of job avenues and brazen acts of backdoor appointments have pushed Jammu and Kashmir to the wall, as they see their future bleak under PDP-BJP dispensation.
The tall claims of the Coalition Government with regard to empowerment of youth are falling flat, as they were getting further alienated by nepotism and political considerations guiding the recruitment”, Rana said while addressing youth activists at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here.
He accused the Coalition Government of failing in bringing a job policy and said the initiatives taken during the previous Government led by Omar Abdullah have been negated. He said unemployment continues to be a biggest challenge for industrially underdeveloped State like Jammu and Kashmir but the insensitive dispensation is yet to appreciate this phenomenon. In this context he referred to SKEPWY besides Udaan and Himayat programmes and said these had rekindled hope among the unemployed educated but political myopism has taken them backwards.
Exhorting Youth National Conference workers to generate awareness about anti-youth and anti-people policies of the Government, Rana said that instead of focusing on governance and development the coalition was indulging in antagonizing different segments of society, especially the youth to divert the attention from real issues. He said the coalition partners have miserably failed in fulfilling promises made to the people before and after the elections. “They appear to be in competition to score points over one another as a result of which the governance has taken rear seat”, Rana added.
He said National Conference has always been in the forefront to channelize youth power towards productive pursuits and generating avenues for them in the political arena. “Today’s workers are leaders of tomorrow”, he said hoping the youth to emulate the role of towering party leaders, who have offered numerous sacrifices to strengthen the bonds of amity between various sections of society during most testing times.
Speaking on the occasion, Provincial Youth National Conference President Ajaz Jan referred to the growing discontentment among youth, especially unemployed educated and held the PDP-BJP dispensation responsible for pushing them to the wall by pursuing anti-youth policies.
He said the youth are feeling let down and betrayed, as the past over three years have witnessed nepotism ruling roost and political exigencies guiding recruitments, mostly through backdoor channels.
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