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| If my govt had not fallen… | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | July 16
Retirement age would have gone to 60 years
Educated youth would have unemployment wages
90,000 aspirants would have got govt jobs
If former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s claims are anything to go by, the people of Jammu and Kashmir lost historical opportunities of growth and development in the fall of Congress led coalition government on July 7.
Azad says that dozens of welfare measures were in pipeline and most of the schemes and decisions were just at the final stage when Peoples Democratic Party pulled out of the government. Vowing that he will never allow, in his lifetime, PDP entering into another alliance with the Congress as he also declared that he won’t leave Jammu and Kashmir till forming a government with two-third majority.
Azad also brushed aside the reports of his induction in the Union Cabinet or any other form of rehabilitation in the Congress organizational at central level. “I am not taking any assignment and I am not going anywhere till I form the Congress government in Jammu and Kashmir with two-thirds majority”, he said in an interview. He asserted that during his lifetime, Peoples Democratic Party will never be allowed to have an alliance with the Congress.
The former Chief Minister said that if his government was not made to fall by the PDP, more than 90,000 people would have got government jobs in a month and half. He said that fast track process, decided at a cabinet meeting, was already underway to full up 20,000 vacancies while another lot of 70,000 vacancies at different positions were to be cleared in the day when there was a political crisis. He pointed out that by pulling out of the Government; the Peoples Democratic Party has done a grave harm to the interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that another landmark decision in the offing was to announce unemployment wages for the educated youth. “All those youth who could not get jobs (out of the 90,000 above) were supposed to get unemployment wages if I had continued as Chief Minister for just another two weeks”, said the former Chief Minister and added that his government was all set to enhance the retirement age of government employees from 58 years to 60 years.
Azad had earlier been blaming the politics of emotions and sentiments but this was first time that he came openly against the Peoples Democratic Party for deceiving the coalition. He claimed throughout the two and half years of his governance the PDP continued to raise obstacles at one or the other issue. |
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