National calamity is not the time for a political attack. It is time to stand by the government. But when the sheer ineptitude and stubbornness of the government endangers the safety of people, it becomes important to seek accountability. Asking questions is a responsibility, said former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla while accusing govt to read the gravity of impact of Covid-19 and each and every section of society. LG Administration’s inability to get its act together even after more than a month has put the people of J&K at grave risk wandering what to do ,where to go to deal with current situation. There is overwhelming evidence that more and more people have run out of cash and are forced to stand in lines to collect free cooked food. He asked why cannot government save them from hunger and protect their dignity by transferring cash to every poor family, why can’t government distribute, free of cost, a small part of the 77 million tonnes of grain with FCI to families who need the grain to feed themselves.
Meanwhile Former Minister on Friday continued to extend his helping hand by distributing Food packet among needy persons in various parts of the Gandhi Nagar Constituency amid lockdown due COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, Bhalla today distributed ration item in Balmaki Colony ward -20. Prominent among those who accompanied Bhalla include Sr. General Secretary DCC Urban Puneet Arora, DCC General Secretary Urban Aman Bawa, DCC General Secretary Urban Jatin Vashisht, Pardeep Bhalla, Vijay Khajuria Viju, Vipan Sharma Kaka, Arvinder Sharma, Neelam, Anita , Kinder, Rahul, Sagar, Kartar Singh, Ravila Bhatti, Sham Singh, Rohit Choudhary, Sanjay Gupta Murli beside others.
The announcement of mega economic package seems to have no impact on those who turned jobless, homeless, foodless due to the lockdown. The government is trying to encash the COVID crisis by multiplied projection of the stimulus package. It is made to sound big but on ground of no help to migrants and poor. Bhalla slammed Govt for the false propaganda on economic package as it has singled out labourers, farmers, honest tax payers, MSMEs and cottage industry as beneficiaries of the package, it indicates that Govt is diligent in addressing issues of the segments whose lockdown woes the opposition has voiced, but whatever PM has promised seems fake on ground. The package brings not much relief to labourers, farmers and tax payers. The government and BJP machinery is evidently ‘harping on miseries’ of the poor population that fights to survive.