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| BJP fears rigging in assembly polls | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 19
Opposition party BJP has developed fears that CONG -PDP alliance would rig assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir ti retain their control over the Civil Secretariat so that they could fulfill their insatiable lust for power and money.
Sticking to their favourite stand state BJP Chief Ashok Khajuria on Monday once again demanded imposition of governors rule in the state for holding free and fair polls.
Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarters state BJP Chief Ashok Khajuria said that the Cong-PDP govt is not just corrupt to the core but also essentially undemocratic.
Expressing concerns over free and fair assembly polls,Khajuria said that the present coalition govt in the state can go to any extent to vitiate electoral scene, mint money out of electoral exercises and use subversives and separatists, including those from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, for manipulating election results.
The BJP has lost its confidence in the Congress-PDP Government and wants that the coming assembly elections should be held under the Governor’s rule so that the people are able to return to the assembly members by whom they want themselves to be represented.
The fear of the BJP is well-founded. It is intriguing that the election authorities in the state and in the Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi, have not acted against the Congress and the PDP, which have played havoc with the decision on the electronic photo identity cards (EPICs).
That the Congress and PDP Government has crossed all limits can be seen from the fact that, according to an unofficial estimate, as many as “25 lakh EPICs are missing”. But, according to official sources, the number of “missing EPICs is 17 lakh”.. The BJP has been given to understand that out of a total of “42 lakh EPICS”, which were prepared between 2002 and 2005, “only 17 lakh (are available) and the rest have gone missing”, some of which were “found with militants in Rajouri in Jammu region and Kupwara and Baramulla in the Valley”. Director General of Police Kuldip Khoda has acknowledged the fact that “the militants had EPICS…in 2006”. What the DGP has acknowledged is a no secret. In fact, he has said: “This had been happening for the past two to three years and cases were registered and the matter brought to the notice of election authorities.He said BJP can say with full sense of responsibility that there exists a nexus between militants and some politicians and it is this nexus which poses a grave threat to the electoral exercise scheduled for September-October, 2008. |
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