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| Ruling alliance making mockery of democratic process: Gupta | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: Expressing surprise over the reports that the retrograde process of using the old ballot boxes in the conduct of elections to the Panchayats and other basic democracies, Prof. Gupta said that the reported decision of the Congress-NC coalition itself sounds murky that old ballot boxes would be used this time after discarding the EVM system, which was practiced half a times in the assembly and Lok Sabha polls during the past over a decade now. What havoc the leaders of the Congress and NC had been playing with the poll process through old boxes is a sad part of the history. They had been playing foul with the assembly and Lok Sabha polls for a long time and their making mockery of the democratic process of basic democracies is all the more deplorable, Gupta remarked.
He said that firstly avoiding the timely elections to the basic democracies and then denying their empowerment itself speaks volumes about these two dynastic parties, he added. Elaborating further the BJP said that these two dynastic parties never allowed the timely conduct of the elections of the Panchayats, local bodies and even those of the Co-operative Societies. And also did not allow the empowerment of these basic democracies by extending the 73rd and 74th Amendments of the Indian Constitution despite the statement of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at a function at Udhampur on April 13, 2007, and moreso, even after such an assurance given in the address of the Governor N.N.Vohra, on February 25, 2009, at the Joint Session of the State Legislature.
‘If the democratic process would have been allowed to function in a free and fair manner, there had been little problems of secessionism and armed militancy’, he said and added that the foul play in 1987 Assembly elections by the coalition of these two dynastic gang up, was fully exploited by Pakistan resulting in the break out of the armed militancy in 1988-89.
Prof. Gupta, in his statement, while pleading for fairness in the ensuing elections to the basic democracies, also impressed upon the concerned election authorities to update the electoral rolls keeping in mind the flaws that figured in the last assembly and Lok Sabha polls causing great resentment amongst those who were deprived of their democratic rights but for faulty electoral rolls. These rolls must be computerized in English, Hindi and Urdu, he stressed.
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