J&K L-G approaches local leaders on COVID-19 containment, except PDP

In a uncommon gesture, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday spoke to round a dozen local leaders of political events and sought their cooperation and solutions to fight the pandemic within the Union Territory (UT). However, no chief from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was contacted.

A Raj Bhawan spokesman mentioned the L-G held a telephonic dialog with the leaders, which included National Conference (NC) president and Member of Parliament Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Congress’ Ghulam Nabi Azad, G.A. Mir, Saidudin Soz and Ravinder Sharma; BJP’s Dr. Nirmal Singh and Ravinder Raina; J&K Apni Party’s Altaf Bukhari and Peoples Conference’s Sajad Lone and Muzaffar Baigh and National Panthers Party’s Bhim Singh.

The spokesman, nevertheless, conspicuously didn’t identify any PDP chief.

“These leaders assured the L-G their cooperation in Covid containment efforts of the UT government,” the spokesman mentioned.

The L-G, the spokesman mentioned, is of the opinion that the representatives of public and political leaders have an essential function to play in these attempting occasions.

“With everyone’s support and cooperation, we can successfully break the chain of the spread of Covid pandemic,” the L-G mentioned.

He mentioned the UT administration is dedicated to the protection of the folks. “We are working round-the-clock and doing our best to ensure the availability of all the necessary medicare facilities, besides taking comprehensive measures to strengthen the rapid response mechanism to deal with the emerging situation,” the L-G mentioned.

Describing the current COVID scenario within the UT as “under control”, the L-G mentioned the medical oxygen in J&K has been elevated 3 times within the final six months. “Besides, the government has ensured an uninterrupted supply of oxygen cylinders,” he added.