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| Panchayat elections “undemocratic and unconstitutional”: BJP | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 10: A day after the state cabinet gave its nod to hold three-tier Panchayat elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday termed the decision to hold polls without effecting 73rd and 74th amendments as “undemocratic and unconstitutional”.
The party outrightly opposed the holding of Panchayat polls and declared its resolve to launch a movement against the alleged “dictatorial” move.
Talking to the media persons here, the BJP state chief spokesperson, Jitendra Singh remarked, “This is ‘not election of Panchayat but nomination of Panchayat’ and instead of strengthening democracy at gross-root level, it is sabotage of democracy.”
Singh remarked, “An election like this is a farce and not empowerment of the rural populace but disempowerment of the rural populace.”
He further alleged that the announcement made by the government “smacks of arrogance” on the part of the men at the helm of affairs and also exposes “duplicity of the two ruling coalition parties”.
He reminded the Congress that implementation of 73rd and 74th amendments was part of their party manifesto and still they were maintaining a “convenient silence” to keep the National Conference in “good humour”.
“The Congress party’s silence was a crime against democracy,” he said.
Taking a dig at the ruling National Conference, Singh reminded that their leadership had time and again stated that one of the main reasons for post-1989 militancy in the state was lack of free and fair elections and if they truly meant this, were they now not contradicting themselves by contributing to the holding of a “stage-managed” panchayat elections which would further add to the stifling of genuine democratic aspirations.
The BJP spokesperson further reminded, “The NC-Congress government’s commitment to hold fair and free local body elections was part of the Governor’s address presented at the beginning of Legislature session in February 2009.”
Singh further alleged that hundreds of crores of rupees that would be obtained as Central fund in the name of these “nominated” panchayats is liable to be “misappropriated” by the ruling coalition.
He announced that the BJP plan to launch a movement against such “fraudulent Panchayat” elections at different levels viz inside legislature, outside legislature, in the form of mass protests and through awareness programmes, besides contemplating the option of legal redressal.
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