Srinagar: Stating that the government has completely got buried under few inches of snow, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday expressed concern over the deteriorated state of affairs in Kashmir due to the fresh snowfall.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, the senior party leader and former Finance Minister, Tariq Hameed Karra said though the snow is not something new to place like Kashmir, but the NC-led government has always made people suffer badly, on account of its inefficiency and insensitivity, over the last five years.
Karra said the people are presently suffering throughout the Valley on various fronts particularly power, water and other essential commodities and the government is nowhere seen to tackle the situation, which has resulted into chaos like situation.
He said though it is not time to do politicking at a time when the political stalwart of the state, Mr Syed Ali Shah Geelani is seriously ill, but the party has been receiving frantic calls from every nook and corner of Kashmir about the terrible situation on the ground, which has literally thrown life out of gear.
And, the government, he accused, is no way in mood to minimize the soreness of people, which speaks loud about its callousness and arrogant attitude.
Accusing the government of turning blind eye to the prior weather warnings, he said had there been strategies and plans in place to tackle the emerging situation, things would not have gone worst, as it is presently. He said the entire Valley has been plunged into complete darkness and even the essential services like hospitals are badly hit resulting into huge hardships to the patients. In such a situation the government should have started the gas turbine to feed the hospitals, but it is not done, said Karra adding PDP, during its tenure in 2004, when the Valley witnessed heaviest snowfall, restored the power supply in record eight hours.
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