NFSA implementation would deprive J&K people of rations: Cong

The Congress today claimed that the National Food Security Act (NFSA) implemented in Jammu and Kashmir by the PDP-BJP government has some shortcomings and that it would deprive a large population of the state of existing rations.
"The NFSA was a landmark legislation brought by the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre but the Congress-NC government did not implement it in Jammu and Kashmir as it had some shortcomings...
"There are apprehensions that a large section of people would be deprived of the existing scale of rations in the state," Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Ghulam Ahmed Mir told party workers in Rajouri.

Mir said the implementation of NFSA should not deprive any individual or bona fied family of the existing quota of ration being availed by them as the people of the state cannot afford it in view of the sufferings undergone by them during two-and-a-half decades of turmoil in the state.
He said the erstwhile Congress-NC government in the state had taken up the issue with the Centre to sort out the shortcomings so that the people do not suffer on this count.
He said the PDP-BJP government has totally failed to address the shortcomings. "Not only they have failed to address the shortfalls but also are making false claims as it has failed to provide sugar and ration to the people even as per the existing scales since they came to power," he said.

Mir exhorted the people to defeat the "communal and divisive forces" who are posing threat to the secular fabric and the unity and integrity of the state and the country.
He said that secularism and unity in diversity is the basic strength of India and Congress would not allow this to be weakened. "Congress stands guarantee to maintain religious brotherhood in order to strengthen the unity and integrity of the country," Mir said.
He said both PDP and BJP played regional and emotional cards to hoodwink the people for winning elections and later betrayed them for the sake of power.