Govt insensitive to people’s problems: Mansoor

Anantnag, Jan 28: Accusing the Government of being callous and insensitive towards the sufferings of the people, PDP leader and MLA Shangus Peerzada Mansoor Hussain has said the Coalition Government’s major achievement during its first year in power is a worsening power scenario, lack of basic amenities like rations, drinking water and firewood and institutionalization of corruption.

Addressing a series of public meetings in Shangus constituency today, Mansoor said instead of addressing the day-to-day concerns of the people, the Government is busy organizing conferences and seminars and making officers hostages in fruitless meetings. “Ironically, instead of allowing the officers to attend to their normal duties, they are being forced to make available themselves to provide audiences for these cosmetic conferences and meetings,” he said and added that most of the officers have questioned the government’s move of keeping them ‘hostage’ in such meetings just for photo sessions.

Mansoor said while electricity and rations have disappeared with the arrival of the NC-led Coalition Government, people in nook and corner of the State are denied even the basic amenities of life like drinking water, kerosene, sugar and timber. “While the people are forced the live in darkness, the Power Development Department doesn’t shy away from sending the hapless consumers huge electricity bills,” he said.

He said transfer of officers and engineers is the only work done by the Government as it has become a money-minting avenue for the ministers and their cohorts. “Not only the field offices even the secretariat has now become a den of corruption and with no accountability in sight, Jammu and Kashmir would soon become the number one State in corruption,” he said.

Accusing the Government of giving step-motherly treatment to South Kashmir, Mansoor said that the Coalition Government is treating the area as an enemy territory by deliberately neglecting the area in development and other facilities.

Mansoor during his visit to the constituency addressed public meetings at Gopalpora, Telwani, Sonsoma and Wakhil Balan.