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| Doda DDB meet held without MLAs, MP, MLCs | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, July 26: Following on the pattern in which Congress leaders boycotted DDB meeting at Kishtwar, all the Congress party MLA/MLC's including MP Chowdhary Lal Singh skipped the DDB meet at Doda.
The meet was chaired by Minister for Health Sham Lal Sharma over the issue of less allocation of funds for three Districts of Chenab region Viz. Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban District. It was only National Conference MLC Khalid Najeeb Suhrawardy who attended today's DDB meeting at Doda, where as other members including MP Chowdhary Lal Singh, MLA Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, MLA Abdul Majeed Wani, MLA Mohammad Sharief Naz, MLA Ashok Kumar and MLC Naresh Gupta.
All were present in Doda, but preferred to boycott over the various issues includes less allocation of funds. With the abstaining of Congress MLA/MLC,s, there was lack of quorum in today's DDB meeting at Doda, witnessed for the first time in the history of Jammu and Kashmir and as far as legality of today's DDB meeting, the annual budget could not be treated as approved.
Congress party MLA/MLC's unanimously raised voice against the ignorance of Chenab region in over all development. They said and cleared that the boycott is not only for the less allocation of funds. They said that Chenab region is being ignored on all Developmental fronts since the exit of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
They lambasted NC MLC Khalid Najeeb Suhrawardy for his remarks during informal board meeting, where NC MLC was quoted as saying that he had not seen any developmental vision of Azad on ground. Congress party MLA said that it was under the leadership of Ghulam Nabi Azad, State of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed prosperity on all developmental fronts without any discrimination irrespective of region or religion.
They said that they will continue to boycott the DDB meeting until and unless their demand is not meted out. "Like Kashmir valley, Chenab region have also lot of potential in the field of horticulture, agriculture and allied sectors, but nothing has been done so far in this regard" said by Congress MLA's.
When contacted Deputy Commissioner Doda Farooq Khan said that he as a District Development Commissioner has discussed the whole plan worth 87.36 Cr. Khan said that since no MLA participated in today's DDB meet, it was now up to the government to take final call weather annual budget has been approved or not.
He said that our various developmental works are already in progress and said that today's DDM meeting is already late by a month from schedule which is supposed to be held in June instead of July. He said that he had already brought the matter into the notice of government. Meanwhile, general public of Chenab region has hailed decision of MLA's and MLC's of skipping DDB meetings over the issue which is basically linked with overall development of the area.
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