Srinagar, Jan. 3 -- Senior Vice President of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference (JKPC) and former Cabinet Minister Abdul Gani Vakil has strongly condemned the present government for its complete failure to address unemployment, economic distress, and public welfare in Jammu and Kashmir, stating that the ruling dispensation has failed to deliver even one percent of its election manifesto.

In a statement issued, He said unemployment continues to burn the youth from within, with thousands of qualified and educated young men and women left jobless. "Instead of initiating fresh recruitment drives, the government is terminating ad-hoc and contractual employees while re-employing retired officials. This anti-youth policy is deeply unjust...