Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Senior National Conference leaders Rattan Lal Gupta and Abdul Gani Malik today sought holistic approach towards mitigating the sufferings of people, especially those stranded at various destinations in the wake of the ongoing lockdown, first announced on March 25 and later extended on April 14.
“The stranded people mostly comprise students, patients and labourers who got stuck up and are facing lot many hardships away from their homes”, Rattan Lal Gupta said in a statement, urging the administration to explore the possibility of arranging some sort of transport for them as one time exception, of course by maintaining necessary preventive protocols.
Gupta described the present situation as unprecedented and said while restrictions are necessary for safety of all, some way out is needed to be found for providing some respite to these unfortunate people.
In a separate statement, former Minister Abdul Gani Malik said that a vast chunk of people from hilly belts of Reasi district are spread in various cities and towns, mostly in Jammu, for earning their livelihood on daily earning basis. While they have been rendered jobless, they have nowhere to go in these difficult times, he said and strongly pitched for their transportation back to their homes.
“Till that time, they are needed to be lodged at safer places with necessary arrangements of food and medication”, Malik pleaded while urging the administration to take a call on this humanitarian issue earnestly.
Both the leaders expressed solidarity with the people in general and these segments of stranded people in particular, saying the Government should rise to the occasion to solve their problems.
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