Handover Salal project to State: PDP
GNS Reasi, : Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded that the Salal hydro electric project should be handed over to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Party also demanded that locals must be given priorities in on-going mega developmental projects in the state.
Addressing an impressive public meeting at Reasi, PDP leaders regretted that successive National Conference regimes have brazenly bartered natural resources of the state for the sake of power and it was the reason that despite have huge natural resources this state has to depend upon Centre even for the salaries of its employees. They opined people of state have their right on the natural resources so hydro electric projects like Salal should be handed over to the state. They pointed out that the Salal project has been providing electric to different parts of the country but residents living in the adjoining areas of this project are struggling to get electricity even for few hours. “This is result of the wrong policies of the successive NC regimes that people of the state have to struggle hard to get even basic amenities like drinking water and electricity despite the fact state has a treasury of natural resources”, they said.
PDP leaders while pointing towards on going railway project in Reasi district, warned against ignoring locals in recruitment. “We will not remain a mute spectator if locals were not given adequate jobs in the ongoing projects”, they warned and announced that PDP would not hesitate to take cause of locals on the streets.
Lambasting Omar Abdullah led coalition regime for its failure to solve problems of the common masses, they said that this government has failed to bring transparency and accountability in the administration. Party leaders maintained that legalizing corruption and nepotism was the only noticeable achievement of the three year tenure of regime headed by National Conference.
Calling upon the party workers to educate the people about the misdeeds of this regime, they said that Government was neck deep in corruption from top to bottom and leaders of the ruling party have been brazenly indulged in accumulating huge wealth by misusing their position.
They further regretted that common masses in the state have been struggling with number of problems but the members of the ruling coalition have been using state resources for their personal comforts.
Residents of all regions of the state have been struggling to get basic amenities like drinking water, power and ration but the government seems to be non serious in solving these basic problems, they said.
Pointing towards again starting of backdoor appointment in the government jobs, they cautioned that such type of steps would be proved disastrous for the State because alienation among unemployed youth has been increasing. They mentioned this regime has failed to connect itself with the common masses and gap between people and ruling party leaders has been widening.
Exhorting the party workers to expose mis-deeds of this regime, PDP leaders regretted that National Conference has not learnt any lessons from its past mistake. “From 1996 to 2002, the then National Conference regime had committed blunders which led to total chaos in the State”, they reminded and added that the present dispensation headed by the National Conference has been committing the same mistakes by ignoring aspirations and wishes of the common people.
Former Minister Sardar Rangil Singh, Thakur Balbir Singh, Daman Bhasin, Choudhary Zulfikar, MLA Darhal, Falail Singh, Partap Sharma, district president, Bansi Lal Thakur, zonal president, Imtiyaz Mir, Aijaz Khan, Prem Nath, Subash Khajuria and others addressed the rally.
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