Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 28: With the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti having held public grievances camps in all districts of the State, JKNPP Chairman and former Minister, Harsh Dev Singh today questioned the neglect of district Udhampur from the itinerary of the CM.
He said that primarily being an opposition bastion, district Udhampur was being ignored in development and allied matters for political reasons with opposition workers also being harassed and terrorized. He said that with the BJP Ministers and its hostile leadership averse to the development needs and other genuine concerns of the district, all hopes were pinned upon the Chief Minister as the head of the Government to dispense justice and uphold the constitutional guarantees of the opposition particularly those of Panthers party.
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“You are the Chief Minister of the entire state and exclusion of district Udhampur from the purview of public grievances camps is unacceptable”, said Harsh while addressing a press conference in Jammu today.
Urging upon the Chief Minister to hold public darbar in Udhampur also on the analogy of other districts of the State, Singh said that it would enable her to have a firsthand assessment of the ground situation besides the working of district administration that was being used by vested interests in the Government to subserve their political interests leading to alienation and unrest amongst the general masses.
Alleging politicization of bureaucracy, Singh said that several BJP Ministers and Deputy CM in particular were using the civil and Police Administration to browbeat the Panthers Party workers and to settle political scores with them. Alleging subversion of democratic rights of JKNPP in district Udhampur, Singh said that its workers were being bullied, harassed, intimidated, terrorized and implicated in false police cases at the behest of BJP leaders. Seeking the personal intervention of the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti into the motivated administrative activism against Panthers Party, Singh regretted that the district Udhampur had failed to receive her attention despite several reports of maladministration and a partisan bureaucracy.
Paramjit Singh Marshall, State president Panthers Trade Union, was also present in the press conference.
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