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| BJP against holding Panchayat elections without amending act | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 11: Taking strong exception to state government‘s casual response to popular demand for implementation of 73rd amendment of the indian constitution before holding Panchayat elections, BJP today said that coalition government’s inclination to issue notification of Panchayat election is in total disregard of democratic propriety.
In a handout issued here today, State Chief Spokesperson and National Executive Member Dr. Jitendra Singh has said that entire top state leadership of major political party BJP including its State President Shamsher Singh Manhas are on a sustained protest campaign on the issue.
BJP has viewed holding of such farcical election as more of a nomination than election with 30 to 40 percent members appointed by the government, alleged Dr. Jitendra Singh and said that it amounts to gross abuse of electoral process. Instead of ensuring more empowerment at village and Panchayat level, such an election would infact lead to disempowerment of people at grass-root level because of the imposition of state appointed Panchayats, he further alleged.
Dr. Singh accused the Congress Ministers in coalition of being mute participants in this exercise despite of the fact that implementation of 73rd and 74th Amendments was part of their party manifesto. BJP under its State President Shamsher Singh Manhas will continue its protest against holding of such elections, informed Dr. Singh and warned the Central government that in the absence of genuinely elected representatives, the hundreds of crores of Central grant released for Panchayats is likely to be misappropriated by coalition Ministers who are already reeling under several corruption charges.
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