Jammu : Lashing out at the concerned authorities for their failure to honour their commitments with the people from time to time forcing them to come on roads, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee on Sunday advocated for the proper rehabilitation of Nai Basti Shopkeepers.
Congress also sought immediate settlement of 30 refugee families uprooted from the parking site of Airport Jammu who have been running from pillar to post for six years.
Congress alleged that during the period 27 persons have lost their lives in stress and struggle.
Addressing a joint Press conference JKPCC senior leaders including Working President Raman Bhalla, Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Former Minister Yogesh Sawhney, Ved Mahajan, DDC T S Tony and Neeraj Gupta, Chief Media Co-Coordinator said that the highest authority of LG administration committed with agitating Nai Basti Shopkeepers and sweets were distributed by BJP leaders but that commitment was not honoured and shopkeepers served notices,forcing them to start agitation.
Bhalla said that it is a question of livelihood of shopkeepers and everyone supports their cause but the LG administration failed to honour the commitment and the widening is under the central department, so the ball lies somewhere else and commitment should be honoured before disturbing them. BJP failed to get the commitment honoured after getting a mandate in Lok Sabha and assembly.
Referring to the thirty uprooted refugee families from the site of parking place outside the Airport, a few years back, Bhalla said that these females are running from pillar to post for their settlement and rehabilitation at the place identified for them at Raipur Rakh.
They are very poor and living in rented places and 27 members of these families have lost lives in stress and struggle during this period but they do not get settled on the place earmarked.
This is a great injustice to the poor people who were thrown under the open sky after demolishing their shelters and structures in 2019, who have been residing here since post,1947.
They were first asked to go to Suunjwan Tehsil Bahu but now awaiting resettlement at Rakh Raipur, Tehs Bahu, they said and took to task the higher authorities who make commitments with people but later don’t honour well in time, resulting in great harassment to them and people lose faith in the authorities.
Every commitment should be honoured within the time schedule and no one should be uprooted before proper settlement, they added.
Senior Congress leaders also reminded the higher authorities of the repeated commitments to the inhabitants of Channi Rama, Channi Bija, Channi Himmat, Channi Kamala regarding re-opening of the Public PWD road, which has been closed by Armed police complex Channi Himmat Jammu, causing great inconvenience to the general public.
Unfortunately, the authorities are sleeping over urgent issues while BJP leaders are only busy in photo ops and making hollow claims of massive and speedy development under centre-controlled UT and LG administration, they said.
Raising another important issue of the proposed laying of an ammunition depot near residential localities and religious places in the Chowadi area, the Senior Congress leaders especially Congress Contesting Candidate T S Tony expressed concern over the hardships to be faced by the residents.
This is a very unreasonable decision of the authorities and required the highest level of intervention to stop this project in the larger interests of people of adjoining localities and sought intervention of LG and CM in matter.
The Congress leaders also expressed resentment over the delay in the grant of statehood- as a result, people are suffering a lot due to the dual power centre and demanded immediate restoration of statehood.
Accusing BJP leaders of shedding crocodile tears on every such issue of public concern while utterly failing to deliver on promises in past during their direct, and indirect rule in over ten years and all commitments made by them ten years prior have remained unfulfilled so far.
