Alleging that there is "total mismanagement" in the relief and rehabilitation process, the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today said the state government was trying to show its presence in the wrong way by messing up distribution of relief material among the flood victims.
"After its complete failure in taking preventive steps to tackle floods and the situation arising out of it, the Jammu and Kashmir government was now trying to show its presence in the wrong way by messing up distribution of relief material to the victims," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said after touring flood-affected areas of Surankote, Mendhar and Haveli in Poonch district today.
She said even about 20 days after the tragedy struck, the flood situation remained grim on the ground with victims struggling for their survival in absence of any government help.
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She expressed dismay over the way government was handling the relief measures which now seem to be revolving around the intentions to seek political mileage.
"It is a general perception among the people that after being drowned in floods the government was now trying to show signs of presence through arbitrary and biased distribution of relief," she said, adding the government was routing relief material through the ruling parties which itself speaks about the intention of the state dispensation.
She said reports about government putting a curb on Non Government Organisations (NGOs) to distribute relief material independently was most condemnable act and her party cannot be a mute spectator to such tactics.
"For around a week the government and its machinery left the people at the mercy of God and it were the victims alone who helped each other at the most crucial juncture. Now the government was trying to route the relief material collected by voluntary organisations though its own machinery just in order to show its presence," she said.
