Jammu, June 07: National Panthers Party (NPP) president and former minister Harsh Dev Singh on Wednesday said that J&K had once again been omitted from the itinerary of elections thereby ruling out the possibility of such polls in the near future.
He was referring to the directives issued by ECI to five states namely Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Telangana and Chhattisgarh for holding preparations for the conduct of Assembly polls during the current year.
“Having failed to deliver and to redeem its promises, the BJP was attempting to postpone elections on one pretext or the other. Having antagonized its own electorates as well, the BJP was trying hard to buy time and thereby resorting to delay and deny tactics over the issue of conduct of assembly elections in J&K,” Singh said.
“Scared to face the people in the wake of its multiple betrayals with peoples’ cause, it preferred repeated postponement of polls and continuation of its proxy rule in the UT,” the NPP president said while interacting with the general public during his tour of villages Ghantwal and Drounthal of Chenani constituency.
Reiterating the need for the early elections in J&K, Singh said that any delay in this regard would not only amount to subversion of democracy but also violate the orders of the Supreme Court.
Harsh Dev said the LG administration had “lost connect: with the masses. “The unemployed, semi-employed and contractuals were on the roads with none to even take note of their sufferings and grievances. The people inhabiting the rural areas were suffering badly for basic amenities with no access whatsoever to the corridors of power. With hardly any forum to ventilate their grievances, the people were suffering badly in the absence of a popular government, thereby resulting in growing alienation amongst the masses,” he said.
