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| Youth Congress leader accuses NPP of irregularities in MLC elections | | Seeks de-recognition of party by Election Commission | |
Early Times Report
Ramnagar, Dec 4: State Youth Congress General Secretary, R S Pathania today accused National Panthers Party (NPP) of resorting to low-grade politics of money, muscle and wine-power in Ramnagar, Udhampur and Chenani assembly segments during the recently concluded Legislative Council polls.
In a communication supported with "facts and figures and documentary evidence" to Election Commission of India he accused JKNPP of throwing to winds the norms and standards set by the ECI as well as Representation Of Peoples Act and other laws and legislations in force.
Pathania lamented that canvassing on caste and creed lines has been resorted to brazenly and unabashedly by Panthers leaders. He claimed that his party cadres were in possession of recorded CDs of the public addresses of Panthers leaders where "they have openly deprecated certain communities and side-by-side sought votes of particular castes/communities."
"The said evidence will be shortly made available to the Election Commission as election observers have failed to act and assert," he said.
While taking a dig at the Election Commission observers Pathania wondered as to where and why the "so-called" observers appointed by it were sleeping when NPP was lavishing lacs of rupees on massive public rallies at Ramnagar and Bharnara (Majalta) and arranging sumptuous dinners for sarpanches/panches on December 1 as well as on the polling day (December 3).
He questioned as to why the local administration has not impounded 100-odd taxi-cars hired by Panthers Party candidates to ferry voters from their native places to respective polling stations at block headquarters at Jakhed, Ramnagar, Ghordi, Udhampur, Chenani and Majalta.
Pathania accused vested interests within the local administration of being hand-in-glove with those who "threw to winds all the rules and principles associated with the noble job of electioneering."
He demanded institution of a Commission Of Inquiry and de-recognition of NPP as "violation of Code Of Conduct has been a name anonymous with the party."
Pathania reminded the Election Commission authorities that in the last assembly elections, Harshdev Singh in close liaison with a senior district-level officer of Udhampur had entered in to a truck with as many as 25-30 presiding officers who had doctored and trained the E.V.M.s in their respective booths by 'mechanical rigging' with a view to giving an out-of-way edge to JKNPP in Ramnagar assembly. |
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