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| Influential NC workers 'adequately' compensated for least losses | | MLA Habba Kadal plays truant with relief cheques | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 27: As the election season has already set in a legislator of National Conference has influenced the assessment team calculating flood related damages while awarding relief cheques to the party workers despite the fact that these people were not entitled for the same.
MLA Habba Kadal and Chairperson, State Commission for Women, Shameema Firdous managed to sanction relief cheque worth Rs. 75,000 each for more than three dozen National Conference workers in the Mandir Bagh area of her locality. This was despite the fact that houses of these NC workers did not suffer damages to the tune that they were entitled to relief cheque of Rs. 75,000 each.
A group of residents of Mandir Bagh told Early Times that 18 houses suffered severe damages during the recent flood and the owners of these houses were entitled to compensation. The residents said that in addition to these 18 houses, relief cheques for fully damaged houses were also sanctioned for 42 other families in the locality.
"The sitting legislator influenced the concerned assessment team and ensured that relief cheques are sanctioned for the non-deserving families. The fake beneficiaries owe their allegiance to National Conference and are very close to the sitting legislator from the Habba Kadal assembly seat," said Mohammad Yusuf, a resident.
Echoing the views of Yusuf some of the other residents of area said that the favour has been showered by the sitting legislator so that the 'blue-eyed' workers play their role in the Assembly election for the Habba Kadal seat which goes to polls on December 14 along with the seven other Assembly seats of Srinagar district.
The residents said that houses of Mohammad Amin Nilla, Javed Ahmad Bhat, Nisar Ahmad Wani, Abdul Rashid Khan, Shabir Ahmad Khan, Manzoor Ahmad Dar, Ghulam Mohammad Shah, Mohammad Rafiq Shah, Dawood Dar, Maroof Ghulam, Bashir Ahmad Fafoo, Javed Ahmad Fafoo, Abdul Karim Wagay, Abdul Majeed Dar, Atta Mohammad Khan, Moti Lal, Abdul Rashid Khan (Pasha), Abdul Majeed Laway and Mohammad Yusuf Laway suffered tremendous damages in the devastating flood.
"The district administration sanctioned the relief cheques in favour of the people whose houses were completely damaged in the flood. At the same time the concerned authorities could not wade away the influence of the sitting legislator and she could manage to get the relief cheques sanctioned in her own people since they hold key to her chances in the assembly election," said Yusuf.
The residents said that sanctioning of relief cheques for less affected families is a violation of Model Code of Conduct and needs to be probed by the election authorities. They said that an independent enquiry should be carried out in the matter so that the truth comes out more so since elections are just few days away.
"The dust can settle down only when thorough probe is carried out in the whole issue. Responsibility can be easily fixed and this should be followed by stern action against the violators of law. Otherwise, the guilty would roam free as if they have done nothing adverse," said the residents. |
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