Srinagar: Apni Party on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest demonstration at Srinagar against the prolonging mutton crisis, curtailment in ration supplies, rising prices of fuel and other edible commodities in Jammu and Kashmir.
The protesting Party workers assembled before the Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs at Shaheed Gunj, Srinagar and raised slogans against the administration for its failure in mitigating the sufferings of the people.
The protesters were led by Party’s Provincial President Kashmir Mohammad Ashraf Mir.The protesters raised slogans against curtailment in ration supply to the consumers who are being deprived of their quota for not having Aadhar registrations, continuous ration quota curtailments, unending mutton crisis, reduction in Kerosene Oil supplies, frequent electricity cuts, scarcity of drinking water supplies, rise in petrol and LPG prices, and hegemonic attitude of bureaucracy.
On this occasion, while speaking to the media-persons, Provincial President Mohammad Ashraf Mir said that the Party decided to come to the streets as the administrative inertia is eating into vitals of the people. “This is since 2019 that a political party has come on roads raising the public interest issues. Apni Party believes in practical politics and we are to voice over concern and raise the demands of utmost public interest,” he added.
Mir said that Apni Party’s protest demonstration was aimed at awakening the authoritative bureaucratic regime from its deep slumber. “This regime is acting ostentatiously impervious to the woes of the people. The lingering mutton crises is a simple proof for the inefficiency and miserable failure of those in authority,” Mir remarked.He said that Apni Party would not shy away from its responsibilities and, if need arises, will hit the streets again and again against this bureaucratic setup that has brought more miseries in the lives of common people. “People have nowhere to go right now. There seems to be no accountability. I assure the people that Apni Party will always be there to voice the problems faced by people,” he concluded.
Talking to reporters the Apni Party State Secretary Muntazir Mohi-ud-din urgedthe Government to address this situation both taking in view the public aspirations.“The mutton rates should be evaluated keeping in mind the welfare of all the stakeholders. The Government can reasonably assess the rates in livestock markets outside Jammu and Kashmir. You don’t need to be an Einstein for that,” Muntazir remarked. The Party leadership jointly urged the government to respond to their demands, as these issues are of immense public importance. At the end of the protest demonstration, the Party leaders handed over a memorandum to the Directorate of Food and Supplies.
