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EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Jan 11: Taking a dig at the government propaganda about its achievements during the last four years Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the full page advertisement in today's papers claiming credit for development of Srinagar city was ridiculous to say the least. The chief spokesperson of the party Naeem Akhtar in a statement said the advertisement thoughtlessly carrying photographs of everybody from the PM down to the secretary of a department was not just funny but it rubs salt on the wounds of the people of Srinagar apart from adversely affecting the image of national leadership among the people. They treat the people as fools, Akhtar said.
Akhtar said the advertisement was a poster not of the development or the lack of it in the 3000 year old heritage city under the present dispensation but it exposed the limits of vision and planning among the leadership of this govt. He said no city including Mogadeshu, the capital of war ravaged African nation Somalia, would project construction of dog kennels to its self respecting citizens as a favour. He said while the residents of Srinagar are still battling close to one lakh dogs having suffered bites and a few deaths in canine attacks the government has been busy working on funny solutions with components like the kind of breakfast that should be served to the dogs that undergo birth control procedures. This, he said is happening in a city where five hundred infant deaths were reported from the main children hospital in a matter of few months under this government. Akhtar said his party would not even lay claim on projects like Sangarmal or the number of sewage treatment plants that were constructed during the PDP-Congress regime and have now found place in the list of achievements of this government.
He said the PDP believes that Srinagar and its residents deserve much better facilities at par with the most modern cities around the world and construction of a shopping facility or sewage treatment plants even if they were constructed in its tenure would not qualify as outstanding achievements. |
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