Jammu, Apr 25 (KNS): Provincial President National Conference Devender Singh Rana on Monday assailed PDP-BJP combine for sowing seeds of discord and perpetrating polarization by bringing regions and communities eyeball to eyeball situation as per sinister political strategy.
“There is a huge contradiction between words and actions of the coalition partners”, Rana said while addressing Provincial Vice Presidents and District Presidents of the Jammu Province at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this morning.
In a statement to KNS, he referred to the deceptive posturing of the alliance partners, saying while claiming to unite the regions and bridging the gap between different segments of society, they have unleashed their respective cadre to promote division on regional and religious lines.
Rana, however, cautioned the coalition not to undermine sagacity of the people, who were capable of reading between lines, and said National Conference will fight divisive elements and not allow their sinister machinations to succeed. He complimented the cadre for appreciating the need for strengthening amity and tranquility and remaining in the forefront to isolate divisive forces.
The Provincial President also castigated the PDP-BJP Government for contemptuously ignoring peoples’ aspirations and taking vicarious pleasure in their accumulating woes.
“It is a dispensation of sorts, which itself rejected the first spell of (mis)governance as abject failure and instead of learning lessons continues to be nonchalant”, he said, adding that the coalition, based on compulsions and compromises, does not show any sign of grit and determination to solve peoples’ problems and referred to widespread state-wide resentment against the implementation of National Food Security Act without giving a thought to its fallout on the poor populace. “People are taking to streets and this government doesn’t seem to be concerned”, he wondered and questioned the representative character of the coalition which has lost direction and will to govern. He also made a mention of the commitments made by senior functionaries of the government with regard to sorting out the issue and said nothing tangible is happening on ground as a result of which the rationees are finding themselves left in lurch.
The Provincial President described lack of coordination between various components of the government detrimental to the interests of the sensitive state, which needs special dispensation for its unique problems.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelHe said the previous government led by Omar Abdullah has taken a conscious decision on non-implementation of the Act, as it deprived major chunk of rationed population of much needed ration support. “For months now, the poor rationees are braving the brunt enforced by the insensitive and irresponsible government”, he added.
Rana shared the concern of the District Presidents over scarce supplies of food grains to the rationees and deprivation of many, and said that appreciating the urgency and enormity of the matter the party’s Central Working Committee adopted a resolution, seeking rollback of NFSA. He hoped the government will not make it a point of false prestige and take necessary steps to revert back to the tested old system of 35 kilograms rations per rationee.
The Provincial President also dwelt upon the prevailing fluid political situation and said that being premier political party of the state, the National Conference cadre had to get further activated to meet the challenge. “Dejected and disillusioned people of the state are looking towards National Conference with hope and we have to prepare ourselves to meet their aspirations”, he said and asked the functionaries to mobiles workers for identifying the problems and agitating these at appropriate fora.
Rana also discussed threadbare functioning of district units besides various wings of National Conference and exuded confidence that given the support of the people, the party will be in a position to steer out the state from crossroad of its history. He called for synergized and coordinated efforts in making the party vibrant at grass root level.
Prominent among those present in the meeting included Provincial Vice Presidents Ghulam Hyder Malik, Brij Mohan Sharma, Dr Chaman Lal, Haji Mohammed Hussain, Qazi Jalal-ud-Din, Jugal Mahajan, Mohinder Singh, Bashir Ahmed Wani, Anil Dhar, Ch Haroon, Chander Mohan Sharma and Mohammed Ayub Malik. The District Presidents who attended the meeting included Dharamveer Singh Jamwal, Jagjeevan Lal, Shafayat Ahgmed Khan, Mohinder Gupta, Sajjad Shaheen, Ajeet Kumar Shamra and Sunil Verma. (KNS)