J K News Today

Jammu, January 2

 Governor N N Vohra delivered Governor’s address  to the joint session of the state legislature  in Jammu on Tuesday amidst noisy scenes and walk out by the  opposition and thumping of cheering   treasury  benches .

The opposition  made noisy protests and staged a walk out to protest against what it called the failure of the PDP-BJP government in addressing the issues of the people from power outages to the  human rights violations . The National Conference and Congress who form the bulk of opposition  staged  protests while marching out  of the Central hall .

However, the Governor  completed his address in which the government had renewed its commitment to hold panchayat , urban local bodies polls and also  highlighted having done something  historic by announcing the  regularization of the  60,000 casual labourers .

Governor was received and escorted to the dais  by the Speaker of the legislative   Assembly  Kavinder Gupta and Chairman Haji Anyat Ali .