Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 17: Former minister and senior vice president of JKPCC Raman Bhalla has alleged that people of J&K are suffering on all counts and the Modi Government was no where visible in the Union Territory of Jammu ad Kashmir.
Addressing a party meeting of the Gandhi Nagar Assembly Constituency attended by Block presidents and senior Congress leaders, chaired by former minister Yogesh Sawhney, Raman Bhalla said that the BJP Government has deeply disappointed the people of Jammu again and again. Every section is under stress and pressure from the various failures of this Government.
He said people are protesting for lack of medical facilities. Farmers have been fighting for their cause, these anti-farmer and anti-poor agri-laws passed in the Parliament in a brazen manner without any consultation, debate and discussion is bound to destroy the agriculture sector and threaten India’s food security.
Bhalla further claimed that men, women and students, poor and middle class, all sections are not happy. Hundreds of wine traders had staged a protest against the e-auction of liquor vends under the new Excise Policy in J&K. Workers of the PHE Department, Government employees are also on this list. This state of affairs indicates the lack of trust in this government.
The Congress leader said the government failed to utilize the lockdown period to expand the infrastructure of the public health system, ensuring adequate medical equipment, PPEs and other supplies.”The government should have strengthened the public health system on a war-footing basis during the lockdown period, but unfortunately its priorities lied somewhere else,” he said.
Yogesh Sawhney urged fellow attendees to face matters head on and take critical issues into their hands. He said that Congress leaders will work to create awareness among public and provide help wherever possible especially by urging the government to open its eyes towards its own blunders. Sawhney further claimed that economic situation, too, is heartbreaking and if the country will have to move into another lockdown, considering the growing number of coronavirus cases, the economy will go further down the drain.
Prominent among those who attended the meeting include Dr Ramankant Khajuria, Block presidents Satish Sharma, Yudvir Singh, Mandeep Singh, Vijay Singh Chib, Kulbushan Sharma, Sham Parshad, Pawan Sharma, Pardeep Bhalla, Jasbir Singh, Harbansh Singh, Gurdeep Singh and others.
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