"The present government's formal arrival in J-K in 2009 has brought with it worst kind of atrocious miseries for the people...There is a complete chaos all around with acute scarcity of rations hitting almost every part of the state," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said in a statement here.
She said "the power position is deteriorating day by day, drinking water supply has become scarce, treasuries running dry, pensioners are being denied pension, contractors crying for payments, daily-wagers and consolidated workers pleading for their wages, people being made hostage on roads for hours together due to horrific traffic jams and so on and so forth."
"The present government seems to have no regard even for religious occasions of great significance like Eid so that it could have ensured basic minimum necessities like rations, drinking water, power supply, pension and wages for its workers for the upcoming festival," she said and asked the CM to "wake up from the slumber and do some justice with the high office he is holding".
"Ironically, Omar has kept himself too busy in making hilarious noises on issues that mostly fall out of his domain," she said, adding "the Chief Minister seems to be resorting to such histrionics only to hide his countless failures on the home turf.
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