early times report
Jammu, Jan 6: Lamba-sting the National Confer-ence led coalition regime for its failure to conduct Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) elections, patron of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that depriving citizens of their democratic rights and eroding sanctity of democratic institutions are the only noticeable achievements of the four year tenure of this regime.
Addressing a meeting of senior party leaders and office bearers of Jammu district, Mufti took the coalition regime to task for delaying ULBs elections which were due in the month of February 2010. He questioned the very intension of this regime to hold the much awaited ULBs elections.
PDP patron said that elections of ULBs including Jammu and Srinagar Municipal Corporations were scheduled to be held in the month of February 2010 but the government has been postponing these elections with one or other excuse.
Taking a dig at coalition regime for not fulfilling its promises to conducting local bodies elections, Sayeed pointed out that during the last three years this government has repeatedly announced to conduct these elections but these announcements remained only on papers.
He said that the Centre has blocked grants worth crores for urban development because the state government has failed to constitute duly elected local bodies.
Mufti, however, said that it was a historical fact that National Conference has always sabotaged democratic institutions in the State be it assembly or other democratic institutions at grass root level.
Sardar Rangil Singh, Thakur Balbir Singh, Ved Mahajan, Daman Bhasin, Jagjit Singh Jagga, Hussain Ali Wafa, Falail Singh, Bharat Bhushan Gupta, Dr Sameer Koul, R K Bali, Amreek Singh Reen, Rashid Malik, Narinder Singh Khalsa, Bharat Choudhary, Narinder Singh Raina, Mohinder Kotwal, Deepinder Kour, Surjeet Kour, Ashok Jogi, Rafiq Malik, Puneet Jamwal, Susheela Jamwal, Vivek Gupta, Ashok Bhat, Billowaria, Chaman Angral and others also spoke on the occasion. |
