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| Teach coalition a lesson for sabotaging Panchayats' empowerment: Qarra | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 30: Calling upon Panchs and Sarpanchs to teach coalition government a lesson for eroding sanctity of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, former Finance Minister and senior leader of Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Tariq Hamid Qarra today said that National Conference led government was responsible for not delegating powers to the Panchayats.He ridiculed that on the one hand the government was claiming that conducting Panchayat elections was a big achievement but on the other hand the present dispensation has betrayed the people who had turned out in large number to cast vote in the Panchayat elections by not allowing functioning of the vibrant Panchayati Raj institutions in the State. Addressing series of meetings of Panchs and Sarpanchs at Nagrota, March, Muthi and Vijaypur areas, Qarra, who is coordinator of the campaign committee of PDP, said that elected Panchayat members were feeling betrayed by the ruling coalition and they were anxiously looking for the opportunity to the give a befitting reply to the state government for dishonoring mandate of the people. Qarra reminded that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh during this year's Independence Day address had also termed Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir as one of the biggest achievements to strengt hen democracy in the State. He, however, regretted that the present government has failed to take any step to make Panchayats properly functional at grass root level. "Instead of strengthening Panchayati Raj Institution in Jammu and Kashmir by honouring mandate of the people, the sole aim of this government is to rehabilitate just four of its blue eyed persons in the Legislative Council from the quota of the Panchayat", he said and exhorted the Panchayat members to teach a lesson to the coalition candidates in the Legislative Council elections to intensify the struggle for empowering Panchayats. |
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