Udhampur, May 21: Apni Party president Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari on Sunday said the assembly elections in J&K are being delayed because the present UT administration has failed to do justice to the people of Jammu and Kashmir with regard to development, employment and other issues. He was addressing a one day workers’ meeting which was organized at Tehsil Mongri, Udhampur.
“The BJP does not want to face assembly elections in J&K because of misgovernance. Therefore, the polls are apparently being delayed without justification,” Bukhari said, adding, “The infrastructural development, growing unemployment, unaddressed issues of education and health sectors in Mongri and Panchari like other places in Jammu and Kashmir has given rise to anti-administration sentiments.”
“As a result of lack of accountability of the officers on the ground in absence of an elected government, the development is a distant dream for Mongri, Panchari residents and all other remote and neglected villages in district Udhampur. The administration’s focus seems to develop Udhampur town but the villages lack basic amenities like the supply of clean drinking water, electricity, health, and educational facilities,” he said
However, if the Apni Party forms the government, it will issue white papers with regard to development in every district to ensure equitable development, Bukhari announced, adding that the party will work as per the wishes of the people
He also criticized the traditional political parties for “exploiting the sentiments of the people”.
Bukhari said that the BJP has been directly ruling through the UT government in J&K for the last nine years but they did not protect the rights of the locals. “However, they encouraged outsiders to get benefits from Jammu and Kashmir in the shape of contracts in mining, opening of unprecedented numbers of wine shops, etc,” he said.
“If Apni Party forms the next government in J&K, we will protect employment rights of the locals, will regularize all the daily wagers, will advertise all the 2 lakhs vacant posts in all government departments, and equitable development of all the regions,” he said, adding, “People should come forward and support the Apni Party so that they can be provided an elected government to end the discrimination and injustice as they witnessed in the last seven decades.”
