news details |
|
|
| Govt yet to finalise schedule for Panchayat poll | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu,August 31 :-Consensus on the dates for holding the Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir continues to elude the ruling coalition .Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,had announced in mid february,while addressing an election rally in Sunderbani in Rajouri district that Panchayat elections will be held in the state soon after the Lok Sabha elections were over.However,the National Confer ence led Government has not been able to finalise the poll schedule for the Panchayat elections even after the Lok Sabha elections were over five months ago.
Informed sources today disclosed that the Government is keen to complete the Panchayat election process as early as possible.However,opinion is still divided over the issue.While the Revenue Minister,Raman Bhalla,says that the Panchayat elections were possible only next year bexcause the winter season was just three months away.He said that within next one to two months farmers in the state will be busy in reaping the Kharif crops and after that they will remained engaged in sowing r abi crops which will not allow them time to take part in the Panchayat poll.
Against this the Agriculture Minister,G.H.Mir,said that Panchayat elections can be held even in winter.he said that when the Assembly eklections could be held in the winter season whcy cannot the Panchayat poll be held as early as possible.He and other stated that in 2001 Panchayat elections in the state had been held after a gap of 23 years.But at that time also elections to less than 50 per cent of the 2700 Panchayats could be held because of the security constraints.
Even when the elected Panchayat committees were dissolved in 2003 the then Panchayat Minister,Peerzad Mohd.Syed had statedthat fresh elections will be held very soon but he too failed to hold the poll till he was in power.
Official sources said that the Government is weighing the pros and cons of the matter related to the holding of Panchayat election.Security and intelligence agencies are said to have informed the Government that the Panchayat elections need to be deferred because once the schedule was announced militants and separatists may again join hands for destabilising peace by way of staging protest demonst rations and anti-poll rallies.These agencies want time for ensuring further improvement in the security scenario so that elections were held on all 2700 Panchayats in the state
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
