EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 6: Alleging subversion of democracy in J&K post Article 370 abrogation, Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP chairman today said that BJP led govt appeared to be averse to the idea of holding Assembly elections in the new set up.
He said that while no initiative had been taken to restore popular rule in J&K, the BJP govt seemed to be least bothered about holding time bound delimitation of Assembly constituencies in the UT created on August 5, 2019.
While the saffron regime was creating a lot of Jangle and rattle over the issue of delimitation and increase of seats for Jammu, the fact remained that it failed to initiate any action in respect thereof except constitution of Delimitation Commission despite lapse of more than 18 months after the conversion of state into UTs, observed Singh.
He said that while delimitation of DDC constituencies in J&K was effected within one week by the present dispensation, the helmsmen had failed to come out with any convincing explanation for the inordinate delay in delimiting Assembly constituencies. He said that with delimitation delayed and denied, political process having been rendered defunct in J&K and political parties discredited and discouraged, the centre seemed to be hell bent to continue its proxy rule in the erstwhile Dogra state.
Re-iterating that a people's govt alone could fulfill the aspirations of the general masses, Singh sought early Assembly elections in J&K so as to address the concerns of various aspirations of the erstwhile state. |
