Ramnagar, March 10: Former Minister and senior leader of National panthers Party on Friday reiterated the demand for early restoration of democracy in JK by holding early assembly polls.
Addressing a public meeting in RamNagar, Singh said that the erstwhile state was being illogically and illegitimately deprived of popular government in violation of constitutional guarantees as well as the ‘obiter dicta’ laid down by the Apex court over the subject.
He alleged that a remote controlled system of governance could not be the solution for the woes and sufferings of the people of J&K. It is the local elected leaders who could better address the concerns of their people and bail them out from their sufferings and pains.
The former minister said the proxy rule of BJP has only led to peoples’ alienation. “The outside bureaucrats and New Delhi leaders, despite their best of efforts, could not be the substitute for legitimate, elected govt asserted Mr. Singh. Seeking the end of BJP’s proxy rule”.
Singh called upon the union government and ECI to take immediate measures to hand over power to the sons of soil in J&K who alone could address the peculiar problems of the new set up in J&K.
Lampooning the inordinate delay in holding Assembly elections in the new UT, the NPP leader said that the centre’s proxy rule in J&K was antithetical to democracy and amounted to subversion of the constitution.
Seeking restoration of popular government, Singh said that delay and deny over the issue only amounted to violation of the Indian Constitution which the centre claims to have extended to the UT of J&K.
“It was further violative of the directives of the Supreme Court which has held that election should be completed within six months in all those States/UTs wherein the assemblies are dissolved prematurely”.
The legislative assembly of JK having been dissolved in 2018 the elections ought to have been held immediately within the period of six months which however was avoided by the BJP govt for political reasons by taking one excuse or the other thereby defying even the observations of the Apex court of the country”, asserted Mr. Singh.
