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| After 'dragging' it for 6 months, Govt contemplating to conduct Municipal polls in Nov | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 21: After deferring it for over 6 months this year, the NC-Congress coalition is likely to conduct polls for Urban Local Bodies in the month of November. The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is understood to have made up his mind to go ahead with the over delayed elections which have hit the roadblock on one or the other count despite announcements made by him only early this year.
Sources said notwithstanding the fact that ruling National Conference has apprehensions of 'poor performance' in the polls , it is the Chief Minister who has conveyed to party that Government could not afford further delay in conducting the elections for a host of reasons. Sources said one of the reasons why Chief Minister is seriously contemplating on holding the Municipal polls is that dragging it beyond this year would contradict the stand and intension of the coalition conveyed during the Budget session of Assembly this year in the winter capital a couple of times.
Sources said since all the reasons and pre texts Government has been giving in not being able to conduct the exercise have exhausted, it is left with no option of going ahead with the commitment it made early this year, sometime in January and later a couple of time when the Legislature session was on. However soon after Durbar opened in Srinagar, it was on the opening day the Chief Minister expressed inability in what he had committed only a month back, contending the tourist season had begun much earlier this year and it was not appropriate to 'disrupt' it with any political activity.
Sources said the realization of conducting the election, despite fears and apprehensions on account of performance, has now dawned also because of the impending Assembly session to be convened in next month during which the main opposition party PDP will rake up the matter and question the ruling regime the reasons for backtracking on its own commitment. The major alliance partner Congress was also keen and has expressed it to NC that delaying it further would take a political toll in Jammu, where opposition parties have started raking it up as major issue and targeting Congress' senior Ministers for not asserting with NC.
However, it has the fear of facing the heat of opposition in the forthcoming Autumn session which is forcing the Government to give serious thought to conducting the Urban Local bodies polls, sometime in November. Sources said though the matter has been formally discussed by the Chief Minister with his cabinet colleagues, it may come up very soon for discussion in the cabinet meetings before the Assembly session. However, if at all any consensus is built within the NC or with the Congress key issues related to polls, a formal announcement would be made during the session by the Government, sources added. The moot question, in the backdrop of a host of political factors, both for NC as well as Congress, nevertheless remains that would elections happen this year or not…? |
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