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| LC chairman election is unconstitutional: NC | | We did not walk out but forcibly evicted: Sakina, Rana | |
Srinagar July 21
National Conference today alleged that the election of Legislative Council Chairman was unconstitutional and said that the party will approach the Governor and appeal him to exercise his constitutional powers to declare the election as null and void.
Addressing a Press Conference here at Party headquarters, National Conference Legislative Member Sakina Ittoo charged the protem Chairman P. Namgyal of blackening the face of democracy in the Legislative Council yesterday while resorting to most undemocratic means to get the PDP candidate elected.
Sakina said that NC had served a motion to the Chair to conduct the election through secret ballot instead of voice vote and had also demanded discussion on spurt in Human Rights Violations in the state and also on the brute force used against the protesting unemployed technocrats, engineers, teachers and anganwari workers, but the acting Chairman in dictatorial manner did not allow the party to discuss these vital issues of urgent public importance. Fearing that some members of coalition may vote against the PDP candidate, the acting Chairman opted for a voice vote that too when National Conference Legislative members were dragged out of the House and doors bolted from inside.
Describing the event as unparallel in the parliamentary history another NC leader Devender Singh Rana said that with clear violation of rules and procedures PDP managed the success of their candidate. Quoting the rule of procedure of conducting the business in the House he said that acting Chairman made a mockery of democracy and thwarted the voice of the members. He said that the members had been deprived the rights in the most undemocratic manner.
Taking a strong exception of the official version in which it was said that National Conference Legislators were given three minutes to return to the House before the election, Rana said that it is blatant lie when the fact of the matter is that the National Conference members were forced to leave the House by the Watch and Ward staff and the House was bolted thereby restricting the entry of the National Conference members into the House.
On being asked by media-men that whether the National Conference's walkout from the House was a face saver for the party, Sakina retorted that they had not walked out but were evicted forcibly despite the resistance by the members who later sat on dharna raising slogan at the entry gate of the House.
On being asked what will be the further course of action in case the Governor does not respond favourbly, Sakina said that Governor is the custodian of the constitution of the State and we are confident that he will not disappoint us. However, she asserted that the legal recourse was always available to the party.
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