‘Vote & Support NC in forthcoming Assembly elections’:  Abrol

‘Youth of J&K have high hopes with JKNC’: Dr Vikas

Jammu, June 23: The educated youth of J&K is frustrated and hopeless as majority of them are getting overaged; and special employment packages should be extended to them by central govt, said Provincial Joint Secretary Ankush Abrol.

He added that the business community of J&K has also suffered adversely and it has pinned high hopes on J&K National Conference for mitigation of their sufferings.

Ankush Abrol was addressing a meeting organized by Dr Vikas Sharma, Zonal Secretary & Co-ordinator Jammu District (Urban), JKNC.  Abrol was the chief guest on the occasion.

While speaking on the occasion, Ankush Abrol urged upon the youth to get ready for playing a vital role to bring change. He said that the present scenario of J&K has pushed the youth towards depression and anxiety as they are worried about their future presently looming in darkness.

“The people of J&K were promised that they will get jobs, development, peace, prosperity and many other things after the abrogation of J&K’s special status, but nothing happened on the ground and people are running from pillars to post to get their things done”, Ankush lamented.

Lauding the pro-people work done during the NC rule, he said that his party leadership knew the ground realities and framed the policies in such a way that people of J&K irrespective of region, religion, caste and creed benefited equally. “NC reads the pulse of people in the true sense of the term but the present government took all decisions in a hasty manner just to fulfill their political agenda,” he added.

“The law and order situation has deteriorated, the business community is incurring losses, unemployment rate is highest in the country, corruption and scams are happening everywhere, administrators & bureaucrats are not being held accountable. This is the state of affairs in J&K,” Abrol said.

Zonal Secretary JKNC, Dr Vikas Sharma while speaking on the occasion said that people are being cheated under Smart City narrative and the condition of Jammu city is bad. There are potholes all over the streets, drains are broken and when it rains, the entire city turns into flood hitting the normal life of commoners. Is this what Smart City is like, he asked, adding that Smart City is not made by installing Signs Boards, but by providing all kinds of facilities to the people, he said.

Besides, Dr Sharma alleged that the political party in power has totally spoiled the earning pattern of locals of Jammu as all the Govt works including contracts of sand, bajri, wine shops, and parking spots have been allotted to the people from outside JK UT jeopardizing the living standard of general public Jammu and Kashmir and drastically dwindling their livelihood. He further said that all the important positions in the UT Govt sector and universities have deliberately been given and occupied by officers from outside JKUT under a well knit conspiracy to make the lives of people here quite miserable with none to listen to their genuine grievances, he added.

He also said that the time has come to defeat such forces and strengthen the hands of Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Jenab Omar Abdullah for lasting peace in the Union Territory.

Others who spoke on the occasion were Rajinder Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Sagar Sharma, Roshan Sharma, Papinder Singh and others.