NC for special Assembly session to find solution to problems

Opposition National Conference today sought a special session of the state Legislature and Constitution of Union Cabinet Sub-Committee to find a "permanent solution" to problems faced by the people residing in the border areas in Jammu and Kashmir.
The party said it is a human issue that calls for humane approach by rising above party politics.
"We demand a special session of the State Legislature and Constitution of Union Cabinet Sub-Committee for deliberating the course of action with regard to permanent resolution of the problems confronted to people along the LoC and IB in J&K," NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana told reporters at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this afternoon.

Rana, who along with a delegation of the provincial leaders visited the Nowshehra sector on the LoC, gave a "vivid account" of miseries faced by the people and stressed the need for priority and decisive action with regard to mitigating their problems.
He said the special session of the state Legislature will enable the administration to frame a multi-pronged strategy to meet the exigencies on the border with regard to rehabilitation of the people.
Rana said the visit of a high-level ministerial team from New Delhi can take on the spot decision about settlement of the border residents.

"Let this human problem remain free from politics," he said, adding the border residents need safe roofs by way of allotting them five marla plots in protective zones, schooling for children, adequate health cover, protection to livestock and conducive atmosphere for farming."

He said the people seem to have "lost" confidence in the political leadership as the promises made to them have not been fulfilled.
"No sooner the guns roar from across the border, the residents run for their lives by abandoning homes," he said adding this has almost become a regular feature and the enormity has increased during the last three years.
"We, as a political class, must eschew tendencies of photo ops and issuing exploitative statements to hog headlines at the cost of sufferers, Rana said.
He said the border dwellers formed the first line of nation's defence and therefore it is incumbent upon the nation to steer them out of all the troubles.

The NC leader said the border skirmishes will remain a bitter reality unless the issues are resolved with the neighbouring country.
He called for Indo-Pak dialogue for restoring order on the borders in the larger interest of hundreds of thousands people.
"The pain of border dwellers cannot be felt hundreds of miles away. It has to be felt by being among them and understanding their psyche," he maintained.
The NC leader also stressed the need for special recruitment drive for youth belonging to border areas, especially in the army, police and para-military forces, saying this will instill a sense of confidence among them.