Nowshera, March 02 : Former MLC Ravinder Sharma, Chief Spokesperson PCC visited Nowshera-Sunderbani tehsils and held series of meetings with party functionaries and prominent member of civil society during his two days tour of the area.
Mr. Sharma addressed a largely attended at Nowshera today which was presided over by Shri Harbans Lal Bakshi-President Block Congress Committee and attended by prominent leaders who includes Som Nath, Jagdish Sawhney, Master shok Kumar, Dolat Ram, Mukund Lal, Rajinder Singh, Baisakhi Ram, Isher Singh, Capt. Ravinder Singh, Ramji Dass Sharma, Ch. Mohd. Shafi, S. Sumit Singh, Youth Congress leaders Amit Kumar, Dheeraj Sharma, Kashap Kumar and others.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Ravinder Sharma said that the Govt. has failed on all fronts and the general public is struggling for the basic amenities of life like ration, drinking water, power, road connectivity, education and Medicare facilities. There is great resentment amongst the people against the Govt
PCC Spokesperson said that Govt. instead of ameliorating the people’s problems is busy in wrongful acts. He blamed the Govt. for weakening the Panchayats through undemocratic steps He said that the bifurcation of wards is being done within a short period of time by the Rural Development Department – which is a Government department – and it is not acceptable because political interests are being fulfilled though the government department. Instead of engaging RDD, the Government should have given task of bifurcation to an independent commission to restore confidence of people but it was not done. The Government has also denied direct elections of Sarpanches,”
He said that the Panchayat elections which the Government will conduct would not be fair under the present system and it should be made transparent.
Mr. Sharma said that the PDS system of the State Govt. has been totally collapsed. It has miserably failed to provide ration to the people even after increasing the price at the rate of Rs.5/- per Kg. He said the Govt is talking for linking adhar cads to the ration but it is unfortunate that 40% population of Rajouri Dist. is without adhar cards and they would be deprived from the ration. He asked the Govt. what is the scale of ration. People are getting different scale of ratio at different places, like 2 Kg, 3kg. 4Kg. per member. Can anybody survive with 2-3 Kg. of ration in a month, he questioned?.
On the issue of refugees Mr. Sharma said that BJP leaders and Ministers deliberately create confusion about the relief amount in order to keep the people in dark, while keeping them engaged in different unnecessary formalities .He said that Govt. has all the details of the refuges since their migration and subsequent allotments of lands/quarters and pending claims etc but unreasonable instruction being issued in order to keep them engaged which is resulting into avoidable sufferings to them . The BJP has willfully exploited the sentiment of these category of people for their vote bank politics, he added.
Ravinder Sharma also expressed concern over the back door appointments in various departments especially in police. He demanded that Govt. should adopt fair recruitment policy, while giving due representation to all parts of the state. He also demanded regularization of daily wagers, need base, casual labour, contractual, adhoc base etc in various departments.
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