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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, JULY 19: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has expressed serious concern over the hackneyed approach of the National Conference-Congress coalition government in handling the sensitive affairs of the state. In a meeting of the NPP Central Body held under the chairmanship of its state president and MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia, the party expressed serious concern over the government move to shift Central University (CU) from Jammu to Kashmir and warned the government of serious consequences if the decision to shift University was not rescinded.
The party felt that the stranglehold of anti-Jammu forces is increasing day by day and the Cong-National Conference combine has unleashed a spate of anti-Jammu decisions and the latest being to deprive the people of Jammu, the Central University campus.
It was unanimously resolved in the meeting to hold a protest demonstration against the government move to shift the central university campus to Kashmir on Monday morning, July 20, 2009 outside Jammu Press Club.
Mankotia addressing the meeting said that NC-Cong have always betrayed the people of Jammu and have heaped hundred of discriminatory decision upon the people of this region. But now the people of Jammu have decided that enough is enough and no more insults would be tolerated. He urged the party workers to brace up for a long drawn battle to remove the regional imbalances in the state.
Those who attended the meeting were Daljeet Singh, Yashpal Kundal, MLA, HC Jhalmeria, Bansi Lal Sharma, Anita Thakur, Vilakshan Singh, Shakti Gupta, Ashok Bhagat, SD Khajuria, Shanker Chib, Naresh Chib and Jagmohan Singh.
Meanwhile, in a press statement issued here, NPP state president and MLA has strongly criticized the state government move to hand over operation and maintenance of the State’s first own mega power project to National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC). He said that government is indulging into loot and plunder of the local resources and has been inviting outside contractors for major works in the state.
Mankotia said that while the government has J&K Power Development Corporation, which is ably handling the same operations, why the government is trying to debar the state exchequer of more than Rs. 150 crore of its hard earned money. He said that it is very surprising that how the government signed such a MoU few months back without taking the cabinet as well as the people’s representatives into confidence. He said that Panthers Party would seek an explanation from the government during the ensuing Assembly session on why the government did not strengthen the PDC which could have provided much needed employment to hundred of trained and unskilled youth.
Mankotia said that at a time when the government is not able to provide salaries to the daily rated workers, signing of a contract which could cost state more than Rs. 150 crores smacks of something very wrong within the government.
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