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| Incredible! Stranded passengers from Kashmir valley get "priority" for food & shelter | | Inclement weather condition in J&K | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 20: It may sound sarcastic but true! As usual stranded passengers from Kashmir valley are getting priority in getting facilities like food and shelter.
The political slogan of discrimination raised often by Jammu based parties in terms of entire Jammu region getting 'second class' treatment is a live instance at General Bus Stand, here. According to eyewitnesses, the stranded passengers from different districts across the state are being "categorize" by the government while distributing free food and other essential facilities.
Hundreds of passengers are stranded since past one week due to closure of Jammu-Srinagar national highway and also roads leading to Doda, Ramban and Lishtwar districts owing to heavy rains and snowfall.
Following suspension of vehicular movement on national highway, hundreds people got stuck here in the winter capital. Those who could afford opted to put stay at hotels, while poor persons got stranded at General Bus Stand. When people staged protest, free food and shelter at Yatri Bhawan at Bhagwati Nagar was made open for the stranded passengers.
Shockingly, when food was being served at General Bus Stand, here yesterday, the stranded passengers hailing from Kashmir valley were given "priority". Sources revealed that when a long queue was made, stranded passengers from Kashmir were asked to come first. "Further", sources disclosed, "even the stranded passengers from Banihal, Doda and Kishtwar belts were asked that the free food was not meant for them."
Observing such a step-motherly treatment by the authorities concerned, the agitated stranded passengers expressed strong resentment and anguish. They questioned, Is this the justice of state government that is every day claiming of keeping all essential facilities at the disposal of stranded passengers. They also pointed out that they too were an affected lot like to the people belonging to Kashmir region.
The infuriated crowd belonging to different parts of Jammu Province even went ahead and took a dig at Jammu based political parties including Congress, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) for their silence over the issue.
"We thought, that the said lot is local and is just standing to get free food. That is why, we decided to first serve the food to people having Kashmiri accent," shared a junior rank government official while pleading anonymity.
Reliable sources further revealed that "when the matter was brought to the notice of senior officials and politicians, it was only then, the free food was distributed to all the stranded passengers." |
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