Srinagar, Oct 31 (JKNS): In a scathing indictment of the present administration, Janta Dal (United) President for Jammu & Kashmir, G.M. Shaheen, accused the government of “criminal negligence and administrative inertia” for its persistent failure to revive tourism, harness local power projects for public benefit, and address the worsening unemployment crisis.
Shaheen in a statement said the government has reduced governance to mere publicity exercises.
“The administration boasts of development while the ground reality is despair. Tourism stands crippled, power cuts have become routine, and educated youth are wandering without direction or opportunity,” he declared.
He condemned the government’s inability to translate the region’s vast hydropower potential into relief for the common people.
“We produce electricity, yet our households are forced to pay exploitative tariffs. This is not inefficiency it is betrayal,” Shaheen asserted.
Calling the state’s tourism sector a casualty of corruption, complacency, and chaos, Shaheen said the administration has allowed one of the Valley’s strongest economic lifelines to bleed. “From Gulmarg to Pahalgam, hoteliers, transporters, and artisans are collapsing under administrative negligence while the government indulges in empty rhetoric,” he added.
On unemployment, Shaheen said the administration has “systematically alienated the youth through false promises and bureaucratic arrogance.”
He demanded an immediate employment mission targeting small industries, tourism ventures, and self-help enterprises to rescue young people from economic despair.
He further warned that continued neglect would breed deeper discontent. “An administration deaf to people’s pain cannot claim legitimacy. JDU will not remain silent while this indifference destroys livelihoods,” Shaheen thundered.
“Governance today has turned into a theatre of announcements sound without substance, vision without delivery. Jammu & Kashmir deserves leadership that acts, not one that advertises,” he concluded. (JKNS)
