Early Times Report
Jammu, May 31: Movement for Peace, Equality & Justice, while reacting to the press statements of Chief Minister & some Ministers regarding equitable development to all regions & ensure the uninterrupted power, drinking water supply to the public of the state.
MPEJ, Member Kuldeep Kumar Rao said that thousand of casual labourers, daily wagers and retired personals are working with department who facilitate the theft of power with the connivance of higher-ups, as it is unable to pay the monthly salaries to them. Is it possible to ensure the uninterrupted power, drinking water supply to the public of the state in this corrupt system?
Rao further said that the people of Jammu province have never got what was their genuine due share in the socio-economic and political processes during all these more than 70 years of the state's accession to India. It is Jammu leadership that is responsible for the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the people of this Province, as also for the prevailing discontent in this region. There is hardly any section of society in Jammu region which is happy.
Had the Jammu leadership, like its counterpart in Kashmir discharged its obligations towards this region and played a pro-active role in the state cabinet, Legislative Assembly & Legislative council, the story of Jammu Province today would have been totally different. Rao asked the Congress and BJP Legislators that who helped Farooq Abdullah Government in February 2002 amendment in the state constitution to bar delimitation of Assembly constituencies for more than three decades? Almost all the law-makers from Jammu, including those from congress, voted for the anti-democratic amendment.
Even Ghulam Nabi Azad, who claims that he belongs to Jammu, hit the people of Jammu Province below the belt by rejecting the Wazir Commission report that had recommended three new districts for Jammu and one for Kashmir and created eight new districts, four each for Jammu region & Kashmir region. He defended the anti-Jammu decision saying he believed in the principle of equality. |
