Farooq advocates single party govt, ask electorates to vote for NC

Etalaat News Service

Lad/Gigbagli December 03: Making out a strong case for single party rule in view of the failure of coalition experiment in Jammu and Kashmir, former chief minister and Patron National Conference Dr Farooq Abdullah appealed to the people to ensure that the party they voted had a working majority so that it could implement its promises.

"In a democracy, people deserve a government that delivers and a government can only deliver when the people vote for a party that has a working majority", he said while addressing a series of public meetings in Lad and Jigbagli in Gulabgarh assembly constituency in support of the party candidate Abdul Gani Malik.

Dr Abdullah said that Jammu and Kashmir needs a stable one party government for effective governance. The National Conference, he said, is the only party in the state which has its political base in every nook and corner of the state and is thereby capable of understanding the needs of the entire state and is thus able to provide a stable, effective and people friendly government.

The former chief minister of the state said that he was sure that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were "fed up" with coalitions and had realized how they were the biggest roadblocks for development. "Hence, you will vote for a one-party government, preferably one led by the National Conference," he said.

Dr. Abdullah promised that if voted to power National Conference government shall ensure that every household have one earning hand to share the responsibility. The employment package by his party, he said, would not only be for the educated class but it will also cover the youth having qualification of middle and secondary school belonging to the far flung areas of the state.

He said besides this the party will re-start the process of recruitment of youth in the Police department by sending the Director General of Police to remote areas for spot recruitment as was being done in the previous National Conference government.

"The inflation has hit the remote areas so badly that all the basic essentialities have became far away from the purchasing capacity of a common man", he said adding that my party after coming to power will open twenty fair price ration shops in every village so as to ensure that the poor people could get all the basic essentialities at reasonable rates.

He said that if his party is voted to power it will revamp the health care center in the state so that the people of the state can get best medical facilities at their door step.

"I realize that people in far flung areas have to travel on foot to reach to the nearest place so as to get medical aid", he said, while promising that his party will ensure that every village of the state has at least one Public Health Centre, one Animal Husbandry Centre and one Anganwari Centre.

He also promised that National Conference if voted to power will provide old age pension to senior citizens in the state on the pattern of European countries and will also enhance the amount of old age and handicapped pension. Furthermore a mechanism shall be evolved to ensure that the pension to the old age pensioners reaches at their door step, he informed.