*To hold conventions in all districts
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12: Hitting out at BJP led Centre Government of betraying people of Jammu & Kashmir over the issue of restoration of Statehood, Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President Tariq Hameed Karra has said that Centre has no intention to fulfill the commitments in this connection and the people will have to intensify the struggle for achieving their goal of securing their identity and dignity.
While addressing a press conference at PCC office here today, on the eve of launching a 15 days mass contact campaign in the province, from Udhampur tomorrow. JKPCC chief said that Congress will reach out to the people to intensify the movement for Statehood and send a message to Centre to fulfill the commitment and gear up people for a bigger struggle for the purpose.
The campaign shall also focus on the nation-wide party campaign ” Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim and Jai Samvidhan” to safeguard the Constitution, democracy and the independence of institutions.
Karra said the mass contact campaign is also aimed at listening to the problems faced by the cross section of society and to highlight those and discuss the issues in coming Assembly session next month.
During the district wise review meetings in Kashmir Valley earlier last week, the workers highlighted numerous day to day problems faced by the people including those of farmers, unemployed youth, traders, transporters, daily and casual workers besides unprecedented price hike and huge taxations of various kinds, excise policy, education system and health issues especially power tariff and promise of free power units.
Despite Assembly election and coming into power of elected Government ,the people are facing hardships for day to day issues, due to absence of dual control system and lack of powers etc. Explaining further he said Centeral Government promised time to time to restore Statehood without delay to restore immediately after Assembly elections but even after four months of elections and elected Government taking over, the Centre has no intention to fulfill the promise.
He said that people will have to fight for their rights and getting back their status, dignity and identity as a full fledged state and the Congress party is already on the fore front for their rights and will intensify people’s struggle. He asked people to support the Congress party for achieving the goal of early restoration of Statehood.
Karra said that the coalition Government is also facing hardships to come upto the expectations of people and restore the responsive system to deliver to people, in the absence of restoration of full-fledged Statehood.
Flanked by Congress working president Raman Bhalla, chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Th Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney and Ved Mahajan, Karra expressed security concerns in the wake of terrorist incidents especially blast attack in Akhnoor Sector killing two soldiers including a Captain.
PCC chief also expressed concern over the recent incidents in Jammu, exposing the law and order situation and demanded immediate check on mafia and criminals to restore sense of security. He also condemned the incident of suicide in Billawar and demanded a judicial enquiry into the incident.
Karra also raised the long pending issue of ‘Gair Mumkin’ ‘Khads’ affecting rights of hundreds of common people, despite some directions of the Court. He demanded quick action in the matter to rightfully settle the issue without further delay.
He also raised serious concerns over the mining issue, destroying the ecology of the regions, affecting water bodies and large scale loot of the natural resources besides the common man is getting building material on very high prices like gold. The Government should immediately take stock of the situation to streamline the system to check the loot and make available building material on affordable prices to the people.
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