Congress expresses concern over Ware House Fire incident, seeks enquiry into Fire Brigade lapses, relief for traders.

Congress expresses concern over Ware House Fire incident, seeks enquiry into Fire Brigade lapses, relief for traders.

Jammu Nov. 9 :  Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has expressed deep concern over the fire incident at Ware House Jammu causing huge devastation of crores of rupees and demanded a thorough enquiry into lapses by the Fire and emergency services  to  respond to the emergency, on the occasion of Diwali.

The party has questioned the preparedness of the administration on the holy occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights where large scale crackers are burst. The failure of the Fire brigade to quickly  respond to the emergency led to great devastation and huge loss to the traders, which is very unfortunate and matter of serious concern..

Expressing full sympathies with affected traders, JKPCC has asked the J&K UT Govt and Centre Govt to work out  adequate relief package for the victims of  Fire incidents at ware house and Shiv market Jammu immediately. Ware house had been backbone of the trading community in the province and  this loss is a great loss to the entire province.

The signatories to the statement  include  PCC President Shri Tariq Hameed Karra, Working President Shri Raman Bhalla, Formers Ministers Shri Mula Ram, Shri Yogesh Sawhney,  Chief Spokesperson Shri Ravinder Sharma, EX-MLC Shri Ved Mahajan, Treasurer Shri Rajnish Sharma,Th. Manmohan Singh, Sdr. T.S. Tony and others.