Srinagar: Peoples Conference (PC) General Secretary and former minister, Imran Raza Ansari on Monday said that people who claim to abrogate Article 370 and 35A will have to forget the State in case they will be taking such a step.

Imran said the day Article 370 and 35A will be abrogated, Jammu and Kashmir will get separated from Union of India.

He said abrogating the constitution are only ‘hollow promises’ but “PC is always ready to sacrifice every drop of blood to safeguard the Article 370 and 35A.”

Imran added that nobody in Kashmir will tolerate any tampering with the constitution, saying “the constitution is our identity”.

About AFSPA and other related acts, Imran said if the situation is normalizing then there was no need of such laws in the State.

However, he while reacting to the claims of political parties ahead of elections said, “PC will only talk about the issues, it will deliver on the ground. It has been seen that people are claiming tall ahead of elections but fail to deliver on the ground.”

About dynasty rule, Imran said they have no objection if anyone wants to join politics, but it should not be backdoor. “If anybody wants to come into the politics then let them face the people. Omar Abdullah was promoted by his father Dr. Farooq Abdullah while Mehbooba Mufti as chief Minister promoted her brother in the politics,” he said.

“We have always requested Mehbooba that everything is not right, but she always listening to some people who were rejected by the people,” he said.

About emerging victorious, Imran said the day when elections will be declared, you (people) will come to know the utterance of PC. (KNS)

Jammu, April 3 : Over 13 lakh electors will exercise the right to vote to elect their representative from Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency which is going to polls on April 11 – the first phase of the 2019-General Elections.

The Parliamentary Constituency is spread over 15 Assembly segments of three districts of Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipora in north Kashmir.

For smooth conduct of elections, the election authorities have established 1749 polling stations at 1387 locations. Of the total 13,08,541 electors, 6,74,417 are males, 6,34,083 females and 41 transgender. The constituency has 7953 Persons with Disability (PwD) voters and 157 marked as VVIP (Voter Verification and Information Programme) electors.

The district Kupwara has 4,38,285 electors including, 2,25,259 males, 2,13,016 females and 10 transgender. These include 1896 PwD and 19 VVIP marked voters, who will cast their votes at 578 polling stations set up at 484 locations.

Similarly, Baramulla District has 6,36,459  electors including  3,27,933 males, 308512 females, 14   transgenders,  3484 PwD and 116 VVIP marked electors. As many as 859 polling stations have been established at 692 locations.

Likewise,  Bandipora district  has 2,33,797 electors- 1,21,225  males, 1,12,555 females, 17 transgenders,  2573 PwD  and 22 VVIP marked electors. The authorities have set up 312 polling stations at 211 locations in the district.

The Assembly segments of the Parliamentary Constituency are Karnah, Kupwara, Lolab, Handwara, Langate in district Kupwara. Uri, Rafiabad, Sopore, Sangrama, Baramulla, Gulmarg and Pattan in Baramulla District and Gurez, Bandipora and Sonawari in Bandipora district.

Srinagar, April 3 : J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Association has urged the government to resolve the long pending issues of employees. It said if the “genuine” demands are not settled, the Association will be left with no option but to file an application before the court.

In a letter to Commissioner Secretary to Government General Administration Department, Civil Secretariat J&K, the employees union said that “some miscreants along with certain officers in the administration are trying to create confusion and divert attention of employees from the genuine pending demands\issues after issuing election notification hastily with the motive to hush up in setting the various issues projected by the union”.

The demands projected by the union stand recorded in the minutes of the meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, J&K in his office chamber on 24 December 2018, it said.

“It has been observed over a period of time that some officers in the administration are giving a free hand and encouraging few goons in the Secretariat to provoke employees against the elected union members and also the petitioners (under secretaries/private secretaries who has sought intervention of the court for changing the nomenclature of the union and their inclusion as members in the union. This sought of the atmosphere within the Secretariat is indirectly a sought of harassment/life threat to the union members and the petitioners,” the letter reads.

It said the government is neither taking any serious steps nor issuing orders as per the commitment made by the Chief Secretary J&K from time to time.

“Government in past has also constituted a committee for the cadre review of planning & accounts, and the report from the said committee is still awaited. Despite the fact in respect of secretariat subordinate services, the committee has submitted its report which was partially implemented by the government with regard to legal services. The report is still pending in the Finance department for concurrence for the last about 8 months,” it said.

It is further requested that promotion of class IV employees is lingering for the last several months and that the necessary orders may kindly be issued in their favour as Junior Assistant to protect their future and mental harassment, the letter reads.

“In view of the above, we request your good-self to kindly resolve the long pending issues of employees and pass necessary orders in this regard,” the employees union said.

In case government won’t settle the “genuine” demands submitted from time to time, then there would be no option for the union but to file an application before the court against the government for “indirectly harassing the union representation”, the employees association said and expressed hope that government will take immediate action as per the commitment.