NC lambasts Govt for failure on all fronts, demands holding of Assembly elections

Senior NC leaders during a press conference at party headquarters Sher-i-Kashmir Bhavan in Jammu. -Excelsior/Rakesh
Senior NC leaders during a press conference at party headquarters Sher-i-Kashmir Bhavan in Jammu. -Excelsior/Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 6: Spokesperson of National Conference (NC) Dr Gagan Bhagat has castigated the Government for its utter failure on all fronts in this sensitive Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
He attributed this failure of the Government to the absence of a duly elected representative
Government for so many years now and demanded that Assembly elections in J&K be held at the earliest. Bhagat expressed this while addressing a press conference at the party headquarters Sher-i-Kashmir Bhavan, here today. Zeeshan Rana, additional spokesperson of NC, was also present during the press conference.
The senior NC leader said that Government’s biggest and atrocious failure is on the security front as it has miserably failed to secure the lives of the people of J&K with target killings going on unabated and now having assumed a new dimension by spreading its tentacles even to the Jammu Division.
Dr Gagan lamented that the incumbent Government is fiddling with the future of youth of J&K with recruitment scams having becoming the hallmark of this Government. The job word has become an inseparable part of BJP Government’s utterances but there are virtually no jobs for the youth as promised before elections or after abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, he added.
Zeeshan Rana said that the Government has crossed all the limits and is making every effort to thrust its orders on the people in general and its employees in particular. He stated that this is evident from the lathi-charging on the peacefully protesting employees, the latest one on the Rehbar-e-Khel employees who were peacefully highlighting their genuine demands guaranteed to them under the Constitution.
Asserting that a duly elected Government is the solution to all the problems here, Zeeshan Rana demanded holding of Assembly elections in J&K at the earliest.