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| On first day of Darbar, CM contradicts three of his own statements | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 6: On his first day in office after the Darbar move, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made three sweeping statements, all to contradict his own assertions of the past.
No deadline on withdrawal of AFSPA, no increase in the LPG cap for the State and no individual security to the Panches and Sarpanches. Nobody needs to press his/her memory to discover that the Chief Minister has only contradicted what he said in the recent past.
On ASFPA, perhaps his quote is still running on his twitter site where he said last year that AFSPA would be revoked from some areas within 'the next few days'. For enhancement on the LPG cap for J&K, the Chief Minister had said J&K especially the colder parts of the State should not be compared with the rest of the country and the cap on LPG needed to be raised for the State. Interestingly, the State CAPD Minister, Qamar Ali Akhoon even made a statement that the same had already been done. Later, the Minister visited Delhi and had a meeting with the Union Petroleum Minister after which he again said the cap on LPG would be raised for the State.
The third statement concerns the security to the Panchs and Sarpanchs after some of them were killed by the terrorists in the Valley and others started resigning their positions enmass. The State Government had said overall security would be provided to the Panchs and Sarpanchs in vulnerable areas and even individual security would be considered in cases based on individual threat perceptions to some of the Panchs and Sarpanchs.
It seems the State Government has finally realized its inability to fulfill its promises and therefore, decided to quickly backtrack on its own commitments.
The LPG crisis has assumed serious proportions in both the regions of the State as the Government failed miserably to clear the mess created by artificial scarcity, faulty distribution and grossly inadequate number of dealers. Even after more than a month has passed since the crisis started, nobody has any idea about where it will end. LPG dealers have announced two-day strike in the Valley maintaining that the process of filing KYC norms is confusing and cumbersome.
Selling LPG in the black market seems to be much easier than complying with the norms which are not applicable only to the State but the entire country.
When the administration closes its eyes to black marketing, hoarding and profiteering, this is what happens. The Government has announced LPG will now be made available through CAPD to the consumers. Why is confusion being compounded at every stage with regard to the LPG crisis in the State? Would the State Government issue detailed guidelines based on the directives of the Union Petroleum Ministry to clear the air? Only if it gets some breather from contradicting its own past statements. |
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