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| Embarrassed PDP disgraces democracy in JK | | Terms voters, candidates as paid agents | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 28: Embarrassed by the overwhelming response during the recently conducted ULB elections despite its boycott call and militant threats, PDP has termed the candidates who contested and the voters who voted as 'paid agents'.
In a statement issued on Sunday from Srinagar, PDP has termed the crucial polls of ULB in the state as farcical and staged, hence trying every possible way to delegitimize the elections and straightening of democratic institutions on ground.
The party has even gone ahead, accusing the Governor Satya Pal Malik of presiding over the most farcical election in the state which have been fought purely though use of money. "Even for inducing people to file nominations and voting, every vote was purchased and that is the matter of common knowledge that every vote that was cast of the 40 thousand odd votes was purchased and sold. And that is how the government of India and some political parties have introduced corruption at the grass roots as a state policy to divert attention from political realities," PDP said.
The party in this controversial statement added that the Governor needs to go through the seventy year old relationship between the state and centre and a serious study would inform him that ever since, the first government of Sheikh Abdullah was unconstitutionally dismissed, government of India used bribery in one form or the other to set up a political set-up of its liking either through subsides and by allowing the loot of state resources by a chosen few. "That trend was halted to a great extent following the 2002 elections but is again being revived through use of money, political baits and arm twisting ," reads the statement further.
This is not for the first time that the party has used such seditious language against the democratic exercise in the state. On October 20, when results of the ULB polls were out, instead of praising the people for exhibiting the courage to vote and strengthen the democracy in the other wise troubled land, the PDP termed the polls a complete mess out.
"The deteriorating situation in Kashmir has already put halt to the institutions and holding elections at this juncture was tantamount to further demolition of the democratic institutions as the candidates who contested in the polls don't even have any knowledge about their respective areas," said the PDP spokesman in a statement.
He said that the reports suggest that a huge amount was spent in the polls but "it is on record that crores of rupees were spent in the state but that yield nothing." He even went further and said that there was a need of political solution to the problems. |
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