Srinagar, Nov 1: The traffic chaos in the Kashmir, particularly in Srinagar City, not only irks Aam Aadmi but for now paternal aunt of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has added to the list.
 Begum Khalida Shah daughter of National Conference founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, who is the president of breakaway faction - the Awami National Conference, Tuesday expressed her “anguish over the deteriorating traffic management and indifference of the authorities in its redressal”.
 “The people of the state and especially from Srinagar city are hostage to the traffic snarls which are more than frequent and an everyday affair,” she said in a party handout.
 “All the internal roads of the City remain jammed and especially the National Highway at Panthchowk and Shalteng crossing face traffic jams every day which puts the people to severe inconvenience,” the wife of former Chief Minister Ghulam Mohammad Shah, said.
 Khalida blamed the successive governments ‘for being indifferent to the vital issue of smooth flow of traffic’.
 Pertinently, for now  mere 250 odd men-in-blue man the entire City traffic while the requirement is of around 1000 cops. Notwithstanding embarrassment which the NC led government has to face, it has failed to augment the workforce even though the party had bagged all the eight  Srinagar Assembly constituency seats in the last  elections.

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