Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 21: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Vikar Rasool Wani today said that people’s life has become miserable due to high taxes and inflation imposed by the Modi Government.
Addressing a meeting of party leaders and workers, Wani along with working president Raman Bhalla today declared that Congress party will raise burning issues of the people and highlight the hardships being faced by the people of Jammu and Kashmir, by organizing meetings, protests, press conferences etc.
PCC chief said that there is large scale resentment amongst the people including youth, students, employees working as daily wagers, casual, need based, contractual, adhoc, consolidated, in various Government and PSUs, besides installation of smart meters, property tax, water tax, toll plaza’s and other taxes. He said that there is great unrest amongst the people for the reason of prolonged Governor rule, political unrests and uncertainties. The Centre and UT Government has imposed various kinds of additional taxes and fees, like road tax, numerous toll taxes in Jammu region, enhanced stamp duty as per State Act despite extension of Central Act, recent revision of registration fees and now the property taxes, which has causing great resentment and anger amongst the people.
The Government had made several commitments to the SC/ST and OBC with regard to their rights, especially post abrogation of Article 370, but there is large scale resentment amongst due to non-fulfillment of those commitments. The Government should fulfill the genuine commitments and ensure due rights to them.
Bhalla said that the claims of BJP for opening of floodgates of private investments and creation of large scale jobs in private sector, as nothing of this sort has been witnessed. The local traders, contractors, businessmen and transporters are loosing business opportunities to outside residents, especially in Jammu region, so who has been benefitted by this decision, he questioned, while strongly criticizing the disbanding and downgrading of historical state into UT. He said that the refusal to restore statehood, so far itself indicates that things have not normalized to the extent prior to 5th August, 2019 to restore state, which proves hollowness of the rhetoric’s and claims of BJP & Centre Govt. on the ground.
Senior leaders Mula Ram, Vinod Sharma, Yogesh Sawhney, Balwan Singh, Gurbachan Kumari Rana, Th Balbir Singh, Shabir Khan, Indu Pawar, Ved Mahajan, Krishan Bhagat, Hari Singh Chib, Pankaj Dogra, Sanjeev Sharma, Rajesh Sadotra, Shiv Kumar Sharma (INTUC), Kanta Bhan, Manmohan Singh, Kuldeep Raj Varma, Kapil Singh (Spokesperson), PYC president Akash Bharat, Pranav Shagotra, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Narinder Gupta, Narinder Sharma and others were also present.
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