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| PDP committed to return of power projects, NC playing just politics | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: Jammu and Kashmir government today said that it has already begun the process for return of power projects from NHPC and the issue has been flagged in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the PDP-BJP coalition. Accusing National Conference and Congress of trying to mislead the people over the issue, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar said it is for the first time that a tangible move has been made by the PDP-BJP coalition government to retrieve the power stations gifted by successive NC regimes to the Centre. "It's because of the stated position of the government of India on the return of power projects, that the issue has been flagged in the CMP so that the long-pending demand for return of these projects is taken to the logical conclusion," Akhtar said while talking to media persons.
He said NC has no moral authority to speak on the issue, as the party is responsible for sell-out of the State's water resources in lieu of power. "Let NC leaders tell the people that have they ever made even a feeble effort to get back the power projects from NHPC," he said and added that on the other hand successive NC regimes continued to gift prime power stations, one after another, to the Government of India to please their godfathers in Delhi.
Akhtar said the question regarding return of power projects to J&K was submitted by PDP MP, Tariq Hameed Karra in the Lok Sabha in January 2015, long before the PDP-BJP coalition government finalized its CMP. He said given the fact that judicious harnessing of the State's water resources is fundamental to J&K's fiscal autonomy and prosperity, it has been made clear in the CMP that the PDP-BJP coalition government will work with the central government to explore modalities for transfer of Dulhasti and Uri hydropower projects to the state.
Akhtar said it was a sad day for him personally, as, for the first time in the legislative history of J&K, the students and teachers invited by him to witness the proceedings of the legislature had to go back with an awful experience after seeing how NC legislators held the House to ransom by resorting to sloganeering and thumping of desks.
"I had personally pleaded with NC Working President Omar Abdullah, Muhammad Shafi Uri, who himself was a teacher and Nawang Rigzin Jora to allow the proceedings to continue smoothly, as these students and teachers were keenly watching how their political leaders were behaving in the House.
But unfortunately my repeated pleas fell on deaf ears," he said. Education Minister said that NC and Congress seem to have lost the plot as they stand exposed in the House for the ruinous follies committed by the previous regime where these two parties were in coalition.
"As the functionaries of the NC-Congress regime were getting exposed in the House everyday for presiding over the most disastrous regime ever, they are now trying to hold the House to ransom and divert attention from their own colossal failures," he said and added that the people are the best judge and they know who has hit the State's interests the most. |
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