Srinagar, May 16 (KNS): Maintaining that lockdown to contain spread of killer Coronoviru was in the larger interests of people , Chairman Peoples Democratic Front ( PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has urged the need to protect survival of the poorest of the poor strata of the society whose livelihood has got hard hit as an immediate fallout of this invisible enemy of the human being . He has urged the government to release wages of all daily wagers and HDF workers in various government departments before the ensuing Eid-ul-fitre , whose families are at the brink starvation due to prevailing situation arisen out of the Covid-19.
In a statement issued on KNS , Hakeem Yaseen while endorsing the importance of lockdown to check spread of the dreaded Coronavirus , has said that it was the paramount duty of the government as well as philanthropists to ensure that no poor family suffers for want of food and life saving drugs in these testing times . He has urged the government to disburse wages of all the dailwagers and HDF workers before ensuing Eid-ul-fitre so that their families are able to observe the religious festival without tension and difficulty.
Hakeem Yaseen , while quoting WHO experts that Coronovirus was unlikely to end soon , has urged the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to announce a realistic relief package for the sumo / minibus drivers , small business unit holders , and fruit growers , whose livelihood has come to a grinding halt due to the lockdown . He said government should , in anticipation , take proactive measures to save more vulnerable sections of the society from the I'll effects of the Coronovirus lockdown.
Hakeem Yaseen has also appealed to the government to release all the leftover political detenues of the state before the ensuing Eid-ul-fitre adding that post Coronovirus situation demands that every human being should be facilitated to be with their near and dear ones till the worldwide crisis gets resolved. (KNS)