Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 25: Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari today said that the Government in Jammu and Kashmir is failing on every front, and asserted that as a committed guardian of public interests, Party will continue to keep exposing its failures and ensure it is held accountable.
He made these remarks today while addressing a public convention in South Kashmir’s Shopian town. Several other prominent party leaders also spoke on the occasion. He expressed his disappointment over the elected Government’s performance and said this Government is failing on all fronts.
“Since the day this Government was formed, it has only made excuses for its failures. Sometimes it claims it lacks the necessary powers while other times, it says its performance is hindered by other power centres. The fact is that the Government has even failed to address the most basic and pressing issues,” he added.
He said the traditional political parties whom people trusted and supported over the years and decades have always ended up betraying them.
He blamed the people for willingly allowing themselves to be deceived by these traditional parties and advised them to introspect and change their mindset of repeatedly placing trust in the same political parties.
“Today, we are not here to seek your votes-you have already chosen a Government for five years. Yet, I urge you to introspect and ask yourselves, why do you continue to allow these traditional parties to deceive you again and again? It has been almost nine months since this Government took office-has anything really changed?
“In the Assembly elections, people did not elect us to form a Government, but to act as a chowkidar-to keep an eye on this Government. And I assure you that we will continue to fulfil this role with utmost dedication. We will ensure that this Government is held accountable for its failures, ” AP chief added.
Referring to the public issues Bukhari said, “In Shopian, farmers and orchardists have suffered huge losses due to harsh weather, including hailstorms during recent months. Frequent hailstorms and heavy rains have literally destroyed fruits and other crops, leaving the people suffering huge losses. The Government must come up with a package to compensate the sufferers. At the very least, these victims of the natural calamity should be compensated for fifty percent of their losses.”
“I am not against reservations, but it is not fair that an entire family-from the grandfather down to the grandson-continues to benefit from reservation certificates. Entire families repeatedly avail jobs across generations,” he added’.
Senior leaders including Rafi Ahmad Mir, Mohammad Ashraf Mir, and Abdul Majeed Padder, also spoke on the occasion.
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