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| Ex-babus lose security deposit in LS polls | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 27: In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, it was again proved that people reject post-retirement politics of bureaucrats and officials many of whom even lose their security deposit.
This was seen recently when results were announced for the Lok Sabha polls. Former employees' leader Abdul Qayoom Wani not only lost the elections but even his security deposit. From Baramulla constituency, 455550 votes were polled, where National Conference's Mohammad Akbar Lone emerged as a winner bagging 133426 votes. Peoples Conference candidate Raja Aijaz and Independent candidate Er Rashid managed to save their security deposit by bagging 103193 and 102168 votes, respectively.
However, PDP's Abdul Qayoom Wani polled 53530 votes while the minimum requirement to save the security deposit was 75925 votes. He could not even get the minimum required one-sixth (16.67 per cent) of the total polled votes.
Wani's defeat has again shown how trade union leaders and bureaucrats have been rejected by the people. The rejection also raises serious questions over the objectivity of the decisions taken by these public servants while they were in office. Former IGP (Crime), Raja Aijaz, joined the Peoples Democratic Party after his retirement. He contested 2014 assembly elections from Uri constituency but lost to NC leader Mohammad Shafi Uri. Raja Aijaz has joined Sajad Lone-led Peoples Conference and was party's candidate for north Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency.
Gulzar Ahmad, who teaches at a government school said, "People have no appetite for post-retirement politics. Post-retirement politics have been trashed and rejected."
He said that post-retirement politics would be difficult for those government officials who have not worked on the ground over the years. In Baramulla constituency, 8128 voters choose the NOTA button and secured more votes than four of the nine candidates who were in the fray in the constituency.
Meanwhile, the Srinagar constituency registered 1566 NOTA votes higher than five of the 12 candidates in the fray. 737 voters pressed NOTA button in Anantnag higher than the vote share of nine candidates.
In Udhampur constituency of Jammu region, 7568 voters choose the NOTA button more than what seven candidates contesting the seat polled together. The Jammu parliamentary seat polled 2618 NOTA votes more than 14 candidates in a total of 24 contestants. |
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