Excelsior Correspondent
MAJALTA, Dec 4: Asserting that the BJP govt’s claims of ushering a ‘new era of dawn’ post Article 370 abrogation has proved a farce, JKNPP chairman and former minister Harshdev Singh regretted that the erstwhile State had faced worst ever crisis during the last few years.
“The total collapse of health services in controlling the Corona pandemic in J&K, the Chinese build up in Ladakh with Pakistan continuing with its misadventures all across IB and LoC, crashing economy, back breaking inflation, soaring unemployment, resentment among farmers and border dwellers, non- restoration of mobile 4G services affecting the students, traders and professionals, etc have made the situation from bad to worse in J&K”, Singh said.
Addressing election meetings at villages Babey, Nagian, Mottu and Chore-Panjian of DDC constituency Khoon alongwith party candidate Manju Singh, Harshdev lambasted the Govt for its failure to flatten the curve of Corona pandemic which has not only brought the country on the second spot in the world in terms of community transmission but also exposed the vulnerability of the prevalent Health care system.
“J&K has seen sudden surge in the Corona cases with fatalities occurring every day. Govt hospitals are in chaos and the total collapse of health services has raised the eyebrows over the functioning of the M&HE Department,” Singh said.
Referring to the border conflicts and political killings in the region, Singh rued that factual reports had laid bare the ground realities and punctured the government’s peace claims. He said ever since the abrogation of J&K’s special status, both the LoC and the IB have witnessed an escalation in ceasefire violations by Pakistan. The rogue nation has been pounding forward villages causing immense loss to the lives and property of the border dwellers. Not only the border skirmishes have soared but the belligerent nation also continued to infiltrate militants, arms and drugs to vitiate peace in the region.
Ruing the country’s plunging economy with GDP falling to all time low, Singh said that back breaking inflation and rise in unemployment had brought the growth rate to the grinding halt. He said that skyrocketing prices of fuel and essential commodities had robbed the pockets of the common man. “The petrol, diesel and LPG have become dearer and as a result the prices of other essentials have also soared,” Harsh said.
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