Owais Gul
Srinagar, Dec 07 : The ruling party—National Conference (NC) on Saturday said that there was no tussle between the Lieutenant Government led administration and elected government in Jammu and Kashmir, saying that they hope for early restoration of statehood to end the dual-power system in the Union Territory.
NC spokesman and MLA Zadibal, Tanvir Sadiq as per the news agency told the media persons that it needs to be understood that J&K at present is a Union Territory and at the same time there is now an elected government as well.
However, he said that those speaking about tussle actually want to create problems anyway between the LG administration and the elected government. As a spokesman of NC, I want to tell you that as far as the LG administration and elected government is concerned, there has been no major problem so far. But if any internal issue is there, it will be resolved,” he added.
The party spokesman further added that they want an end to the dual power system and since the elected government took over, there is a positive atmosphere. “Hopefully, the statehood will be restored and the dual power system will end and the redressal of public grievances will pace up,” he said, adding that at present the public issues are being resolved by the elected government only.
Nonetheless, he was optimistic that the LG administration and the officers will understand that the statehood will be restored today or tomorrow, adding that they should listen to the elected government. “I hope the elected people will be listened to,” he said.
Sadiq was reacting to the reports about the tussle between the elected government and L-G administration in Jammu and Kashmir following the transfers of officers in the Union Territory.
Furthermore, the NC MLA assured that the promises of 200 units of free electricity to the consumers will be fulfilled after the next two-three months. “At present, the priority is to ensure adequate electricity to the people with no unscheduled power cuts and this decision at this juncture would end up in further curtailments. Therefore, the promises of 200 units of free electricity will be fulfilled after two-three months,” he said.
Also, the modalities like deserving and undeserving consumers in this regard will be done later, he said, adding that in the non-metered areas, the consumers may witness reduction in their tariffs.
The NC spokesman also stated that the promises of gas will also be fulfilled as the issue has been taken up already
