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| JKNPP seeks rectification in reorganization act | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 10: Asserting that there was ambiguity in the Third schedule of the J&K Re-organization Act 2019, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman Harsh Dev Singh today called for a statement from the Union Govt and the Union Ministry for law and justice rather than using state officers to browbeat the media and to crush those who had the temerity to question. He was referring to the statement of Divisional Commissioner made in the media wherein the latter had hinted at Police action against the media and others who were spreading reports of re-organization of Districts and deletion of certain districts during the process of recent re-organization of J&K.
And whereas the Re-organization Act in the foot note of the said third schedule had given clarification with regard to Tehsils, Patwar circles and NACs forming a part of various Assemblies, no such clarification had been given with respect to districts, revealed Singh. He regretted that rather than Union Govt making a statement on the subject, the state bureaucrats were being used by BJP to silence the voice of people.
Maintaining further that the J&K Re-organization Act 2019 having been passed by both Houses of Parliament in the present form, the Divisional Commissioner had no powers to rectify the anomalous situation. He said that mere media statement and hurling of threats by the Divisional Commissioner did not suffice to address the concerns of the people who had genuinely pointed out certain abstruse and incongruous aspects in the Re-organization Act. He said that the anomalous situation could have inadvertently crept in the said schedule but could be rectified only by the Parliament as the Divisional Commissioner or any other authority had no powers to add or delete any provision in a Bill passed by the Union Legislature. The Re-organization whether of state or of districts will go by the law passed on the subject and not by the assurances of authorities, howsoever high they may be.
Calling for a statement from the Union Ministry of law, Singh sought immediate remedial action so as to rectify the anomalous situation which was prone to abuse by vested interests.
Harsh Dev Singh who continued to remain under house arrest for the fourth day, further condemned the house arrest of opposition leaders and cautioned the govt to refrain from forcibly crushing all voices of sanity. |
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