National Conference on Friday expressed deep anguish and grief over the killing of three civilians in shelling from across the border and conveyed their condolences to the bereaved families.
On the instructions of Working President Omar Abdullah, a delegation comprising State Vice President Thakur Kashmira Singh, former minister and Chairman OBC/ST Cell Babu Rampal, Provincial Vice Presidents Brij Mohan Sharma, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Choudhary Haroon, Co-Chairperson OBC Wing Abdul Gani Teli, Vijay Lochan, Choudhry Arshad, Secretary Daljeet Sharma, Ch Bashir Ahmed Khatana, Ch Salam Din, Block President S Balwinder Singh and Sarpanch Raj Kumar.
The delegation visited Abdullian and Jawda Farm, met the bereaved families and injured in the hospital to enquire about the condition. They expressed solidarity with the terrified people and said National Conference shares their agony and grief. They also prayed for peace to departed soul and demanded ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to next of those killed in the shelling.
National Conference delegation lamented that despite making tall promises the Centre and the PDP-BJP Coalition Government have not taken any initiative so far to allot five marlas plots of land to the dwellers of the shelling prone forward areas besides bunkers for taking shelter in the event of exigencies. “This is long due now but the insensitive government shows no concern for having these in place to save the innocent civilians”, they maintained.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
The delegation also sought formulation of a contingency plan to meet the challenges unfolded by border shelling besides keeping available mobile medical teams for timely assistance to the suffering people. They expressed concern over delays generally being caused in shifting the injured to hospitals as was recently witnessed in Balakote Poonch.
Meanwhile, a National Conference spokesperson assailed the BJP led NDA at the Centre and PDP-BJP coalition in the State for their insensitivity towards the suffering border dwellers of Jammu and Kashmir, saying ahead of elections they had created much hype but now they are nowhere to be seen.
“People are getting killed but the government is seen nowhere to take care of the sufferers”, he said, adding that such is the callousness of the coalition that the targeted people are not even being provided timely medical assistance.
The spokesperson expressed solidarity of National Conference with the border dwellers at this hour of need and conveyed the condolences on behalf of President of the party Dr Farooq Abdullah, Working President Omar Abdullah, General Secretary Ali Mohammed Sagar and the Provincial President Jammu Devender Singh Rana to the bereaved families. He wished early recovery to the injured. (KNS)