Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: The District Congress Committee Jammu (Urban) today staged a protest at Shaheedi Chowk to raise various local issues worrying the people of Jammu including high costs of sand, gravel, irregular power cuts, shortage of water supply, stopping the practice of Darbar Move and surging fuel prices.
The protest followed a monthly meeting of the DCC Jammu (Urban) chaired by former minister Yogesh Sawhney, general secretary PCC and In-Charge District president Jammu (U). The protesters marched holding placards and raised slogans against the Centre. The protesters criticized the administration for mismanagement of the power and water supply to households across the Jammu city. They said that irregular power cuts and the problem of acute shortage of water are making people’s daily lives extremely difficult.
The district Congress leaders also attacked the recent decision of cancelling the practice of Darbar Move without consulting all stakeholders alleging that it will adversely affect the markets and economies of both the cities and highlighted the issue of increasing costs of ‘reta-bajri’ used in construction, urging the administration to look into the matter.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP leadership, Sawhney said that Jammu and Kashmir has been grappling with problem after problem because of the Centre’s policies and decisions. Jammu is being terribly ignored as various scams and mafia takes over the city. They loot and deceive the locals and the government is silent. The poor are suffering immensely at the behest of this silence. One of the most recent examples, he said, is the surging prices of ‘reta- bajri.
Senior leaders Kanta Bhan, Madan Malager, Dr Ramakant Khajuria, JMC Councillors Dawarka, Ritu Choudhary, Pritam Singh, Saraj, Ex- councillors Uttam Singh, Kulbhushan Sharma, Rajiv Saraf, Pawan Dev Singh, Vijay Singh Chib and others also participated.
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