J-K CM only holds the key to resolve employees' issues: SDP

"The chief minister only holds the key to solve the grave issues of the agitating state government employees and ending the fresh spell of agitation which has often led the common people into grave trouble," party's president Darakhshan Andrabi told reporters here.

She said that the state government employees have been fighting for their demands, including enhancement of retirement age and removal of pay anomalies of all cadres, for the last more than three years now. However, she said, many spells of agitations and negotiations with the government have not yielded any results at all.

"This stalemate has added to the worries of the common men as they face difficulty in all offices. The continuous intermittent spells of agitation of the employees has derailed the smooth functioning in all government offices," Andrabi said.

Andrabi claimed that she believes that the chief minister only had the power to address the problem as he was the only binding force of the coalition government.