Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Mar 8: Provincial president of National Conference for Jammu, Rattan Lal Gupta has reiterated the demand for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and also sought early Assembly polls to ensure justice to the people of the region.
The senior NC leader was speaking at the day-long workers’ convention at Reasi, under the chairmanship of its District president Jagjeevan Lal.
While condemning forcibly implementation of Property Tax without consulting the elected public representatives Gupta termed it as the so-called ‘Achhe Din’ of BJP. He asserted that the imposition of property tax was not in the mandate of last local bodies elections held in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Provincial president lamented that the development has come to a complete halt in Reasi district under the present dispensation and the bureaucrat-centric administration is least bothered to address the issues of the common people in absence of a duly elected representative government in place in this Union Territory. He said the government is interested in only imposing taxes instead of providing basic amenities to the common masses.
He maintained that the people of Gool, Arnas, Dharmari, Pouni and other several areas of Reasi district are facing acute shortage of health services, government ration, power and water supply and poor road connectively. Gupta asserted that J& is passing through a difficult phase only Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah can steer it to peace, progress and development.
Provincial Secretary Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Jammu and Abdul Gani Malik former minister said that in times to come the tenure of the BJP government will be written as the darkest era in the history of India with people suffering the most as even basic amenities and facilities were made payable. They said that people of Reasi area are suffering a lot due to absence of popular government as the bureaucratic set-up has totally failed to fulfill the aspirations of the electorate which is feeling dejected and helpless.
Senior party leaders Vijay Lochan, Pardeep Bali, Tariq Bhat, Charan Dass, Ch Sadiq, Dev Raj, Raj Kumar Sharma, Gandarb Singh and Rattan Lal Bhagat also spoke on the occasion.
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