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Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 29- Assailing the nomination of defeated candidates to the Upper House, the BJP legislator party leader, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta pointed out that this was not only against the provisions of the Constitution but also a cruel joke with the electorates who had rejected them at the battle of hustings during the recently held Assembly elections.
Prof. Gupta held that as was feared at the time of re-union of the Congress-National Conference to share the loaves and fishes of power in wake of the separately contested elections by these two parties, the events have come to prove now that this gang-up could be again disastrous for the democracy loving people of the State as also against the national interests.
After taking over reigns of power the leaders of this coalition manipulated the election of four Rajya Sabha members and alleged that all the four belonged to a particular community including the two former Chief Ministers while one of the NC nominee was defeated in the Assembly elections, he added..
Referring to the Legislative Council election, he said that out of 19 members, as many as 11 of them were defeated in the Assembly elections but it was height of despotism that even the institution of Governor was misused for nomination five out of eight party men of the coalition who were defeated in the Assembly elections.
Prof. Gupta alleged that the Congress-NC gang-up in the past too, had resorted to similar undemocratic and totalitarian tactics to the extent that in 1951 elections they had manipulated all the 75 seats of the Assembly including 71 “Unopposed” with the result there was no opposition in the entire House. .
The two parties had also joined hands in 1975 and then again committed bungling with the poll process in 1987 which gave birth to great resentment thus providing an opportunity to Pakistan to launch proxy war in Jammu Kashmir against India; he said adding that the history would not pardon the leaders of these two coalition parties.
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