Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 30: Although Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday assured that assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held soon, a coterie in the J&K administration is creating hurdles in setting up a popular government in the Union Territory.
Highly placed sources in the administration revealed that some Babus, who are enjoying absolute power without any accountability, are working round the clock to get elections delayed with one or other excuse.
“These Babus are sending misleading reports to the Union Government to create confusion about holding polls in J&K”, sources said, adding, “Babus are delaying assembly elections to sabotage BJP’s agenda to set up its own government in J&K”.
“As of now, the BJP is in a comfortable position to win maximum seats from Jammu province, delay in elections would provide an opportunity to the newly emerging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to fill the political vacuum created by defunct Congress”, sources said.
Notable Union Home Minister on Wednesday said that assembly elections in J&K once the delimitation exercise is over and after consultation with political parties.
“We have no interest in keeping Jammu and Kashmir under President’s Rule,” Shah said in Lok Sabha while responding to concerns raised by members on Kashmir during the discussion on the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill.
Shah said that he had made it clear that the first panchayat elections will be held in Jammu and Kashmir, then this would be followed by the delimitation exercise, after which assembly elections will be held, and then J-K’s statehood will be restored. |
