Srinagar: On a day when the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said no to polls this year, his government came under serious attack from Kashmiri flood-hit traders for shoddy relief and rescue work at a meet held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's point man Dr Jitendra Singh.
While traders applauded every word of Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Omar Abdullah's senior most minister Rahim Rather was booed. A trader interrupted Singh saying that the Omar government failed its people when floods ravaged the city.
He angrily said, "Where was Omar for first four days. Our children and elders were dying. There should be a probe on what Omar did during the floods. We will not beg, but die of hunger. But we demand a probe against Omar Abdullah."
Jitendra Singh later assured the agitated traders that there would be proper investigation into the flood rescue and relief operations. But that didn't pacify the traders as they held more protests against the state government.
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