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| BJP castigates Con-NC for postponing elections | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 3: The BJP has castigated the Congress-National Conference for again postponing the elections to basic democracies in Jammu and Kashmir alleging they were despotic and playing foul by taking advantage of the so-called special status of the state under Article-370.
In a hard hitting reaction over the further postponement of the Panchayat and local bodies elections, the leader of the BJP Legislators Party, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta said that in Leh elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) has been conducted inspite of the people were facing a tragic situation after the cloud burst there as to get benefit of the Central Assistance for suffering lot and to exploit the situation to their political ends but the Panchayat and local bodies elections are being delayed by denying the masses of their democratic rights and to percolate the political powers to the lowest level.
He said that on one hand the leaders of the National Conference are harping for Autonomy and greater powers to them in the name of special status of state but they are not prepared to devolution of the power to the people by establishing Panchayati Raj and empowerment of the local bodies.
The BJP leader was highly critical of the Congress leaders for demanding the extension of 73rd and 74th Amendments of the Indian constitution for empowerment of these basis democracies in public but in the Assembly and even in the State Cabinet are keeping mum because their comrades in the NC under communal and regional outlook do not want anything which is Indian, moreso, linked with the Indian constitution, except funds and facilities for them.
He pointed out that in January last year immediately after this unprincipled coalition had come into being the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, had made a loud promise that elections to the Panchayats and Local Bodies would be held soon after the Lok Sabha polls but since Lok Sabha elections over 17 months have passed but Panchayat and Local Bodies are being postponed without assigning any valid reason. More than this 73rd and 74th Amendments have not been extended even after the promise by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh at a gathering at Udhampur as far back as in April, 2007, and later on the by the Governor N.N. Vohra, in his speech to both the House of the State Legislature on February 25, 2009,
He alleged that present turmoil in the valley of Kashmir and growing unrest in other parts of the state were the result of failure of this coalition to deliver and keep up the election promises.
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