Bandipora, Oct 25: Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Jal Shakti, Forest, Ecology and Environment, and Tribal Affairs, Javid Ahmed Rana, on Saturday said that all talk of development in the Union Territory “exists only on paper,” asserting that no funds have been withheld for Jal Shakti schemes, but there is “simply no money available.”

“People were deceived without being asked. The state was broken into pieces and made into a Union Territory, something unprecedented in the world’s history,” Rana said while addressing a public gathering in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, accompanied by MLA Gurez, Nazir Gurezi, Congresd MLA from Bandipora Nizamuddin Bhat and Sonawari constituency MLA, Hilal Akbar Lone.

He said that despite tall claims made since Jammu and Kashmir’s reorganisation, progre

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