Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 26: National Conference today expressed grave concern over continued border shelling in the forward villages along International Border and Line of Control in the Jammu region and expressed solidarity with those injured and suffered in terms of colossal damages caused to property and standing crops.
“Intermittent shelling has caused acute fear psychosis among the border dwellers in RS Pura, Suchetgarh, Abdullian, Kanachak, Hiranagar, Kathua, Poonch, Rajouri, Kupwara, Uri and other areas, leading to their dislocation from homes and hearths”, the National Conference leaders said in a joint statement.
The NC leaders also paid tributes to the valiant jawans of the Army and Border Security Force, who laid down their lives during border skirmishes.
They reminded the BJP of promises made during 2014 Parliamentary and assembly elections with regard to construction of bunkers, safe shelter sheds and allotment of 5-Marla plots to vulnerable segments of border population, asking why no headway has been made even after two and half years of their rule at the Centre and in the State. “Creating promised infrastructure apart, the BJP leaders could not find even few minutes to visit the suffering people, who they exploited to hilt during electioneering”, they said, adding that border-dwellers cause remained their major electoral plank.
Expressing sympathy with those having lost their live-stock, crops and suffered damages to their properties, the NC leaders prayed for early recovery of injured. They sought immediate survey of the damages by the Revenue officials and interim relief for the sufferers till compensation cases were processed.
A delegation led by Party president Dr Farooq Abdullah also met Governor yesterday in Srinagar and expressed anguish over treatment meted out to the sufferers.
Dr Abdullah told the Governor that victims of cross-LoC and cross-border shelling have not been compensated and what’s even worse – the administration has not even made an attempt to assess losses and damages suffered by the residents.
The NC leaders further said that the BJP partnered Government has miserably failed in rising to the occasion in the wake of border shelling, adding that the residents were feeling horribly let down.
The signatories to the joint statement included provincial president Devender Singh Rana, former ministers Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Surjeet Singh Slathia, Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Shah Bukhari, senior leaders Rattan Lal Gupta, Kashmira Singh, Rachpal Singh, MLAs- Javed Rana and Dr Kamal Arora, Provincial president Youth Wing Ajaz Jan and others.
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