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| Administrative units mere vote bank politics: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 4: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday said that the creation of new administrative units without assessing ground reality is mere a vote bank politics and nothing else.
Addressing a press conference at Gupkar residence, Mehbooba Mufti said that keeping in view the developmental and administrative needs of the state and the difficult climatic and topographic conditions the PDP-Congress led coalition government had appointed a committee of experts under former Chief Secretary SS Biloeria. The committee was tasked to make recommendations about creation of new administrative and development units in the state on a rational basis. Since Biloeria had to opt out of the committee after some time it was continued under Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai.
She said that the committee under both chairpersons made a detailed exercise, met people across the state and made some recommendations in 2011. Since then the report had been gathering dust and the cabinet had been tossing the issue without taking any decision. Repeated demands were made to table the reports in the state legislature but without any response from the government.
Mehbooba Mufti said that election time is the occasion to provide an account of a government's performance. As the elections approached the discomfort of the government became very obvious as it has nothing positive to tell the electorate. The watermarks of this government have been corruption, lawlessness, nepotism and lack of governance. A record number of civilian killings at the hands of government forces, thousands of youth victimised with false, multiple cases, dissent criminalised and opposition voices gagged with curbs even on Nimaz, the government is clearly on the backfoot. People seek answers to their questions on the BOPEE scandal, back door recruitments, sale of jobs, re employment of the retired and the dead wood and subversion of the examination system and erosion of its sanctity and credibility. The list of crimes of this government is unending and it is in for a rout by all indications.
She said that while the Bloeria and Ganai committees took years to reach a conclusion about their recommendations, the CSC was carrying a clear political mandate and decided the future administrative set up of the state in days. The political slugfest preceding the announcement of new units clearly showed the desperation of the ruling parties to somehow create a new narrative of their political existence.
PDP president said that NC has always treated institutions with contempt and the expert committees on re-organisation of administrative units were no exception to this rule. The government ultimately threw the expert advice out of window and decided to go by the electoral calculations of the allies. No rules, no guidelines, no criteria were applied and an entirely new administrative map has been proposed. |
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