EARTH NEWS SERVICE Jammu, Dec 17 |15: The Capital City of Jammu on Thursday witnessed massive protests with National Conference highlighting the misgovernance of PDP-BJP Government in Jammu and Kashmir, developmental inertia and the ill-conceived implementation of the Food Security Act, terming it as anti-poor. The demonstrators, led by National Conference District Jammu Urban President, Dharamveer Singh Jamwal staged sit-in dharna outside the Jammu Press Club, raising slogans and displaying placards. Provincial Youth National Conference President Ajaz Jan was also present on the occasion. “The nightmarish nine and half months’ misgovernance of the PDP-BJP coalition is a sordid saga of failures on all fronts with development being pushed to backburner and peoples’ problems getting further aggravated”, Dharamveer Singh Jamwal said amid chanting of slogans by the protesters. He made a scathing attack on the coalition government for implementing the Food Security Act (FSA), saying this will deprive a huge chunk of population of much needed rations. “No scheme is viable unless it benefits the targeted segment of population optimally”, he said, adding that the ill-conceived policies of the present dispensation have brought innumerable miseries to the people. He said the FSA will lead to deprivation and exploitation of the poor. He said the government cannot remain indifferent and insensitive to the growing sufferings of the people, especially those living in remote and backward areas.
