Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 24: On the 25th year of 73rd, 74th Amendment of Panchayati Raj Act implemented in the country, Congress today blamed both State and Central Govts for undermining the authority of Panchayati Raj Institutions in the country and State to secure political benefit.
Congress also blamed State Govt for purposefully halting the empowerment of people through PRIs with the fear of losing power, although Congress party has significantly worked out to incorporate various clauses of 73rd & 74th Amendment of Panchayat Raj system into State’s Panchayati Raj Act in order to empower people fully at the grass roots level, but the Govt of the day with the ill intentions to undermine PRIs did not take appropriate measures to strengthen the PRIs citing certain unfounded reasons, from time to time.
Addressing the gathering of senior party workers at Khannabal today, the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president, GA Mir lashed out at PDP- BJP coalition for eroding the authority of Panchayats to get politically benefited, as that, the incorporation of 73rd and 74th Amendment into the State Panchayati Raj Act directly benefitting, besides empowering the people fully at the grass roots has not gone well with the `Coalition’ due to the fear of losing power, for the fact, the PDP- BJP have lost the ground miserably in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the Govt is hell bent upon to abolish and change the three-tier Panchayat system of PRIs in the State aiming to elect their party representatives as Sarpanch’s and Panchs without going through the normal course as prescribed under the Panchayati Raj Act, which is anti-people and a futile process on the part of Govt, besides badly affecting the functioning of Panchayati Raj Institutions in the State.
Singh said instead of empowering people the Govt is disempowering them under the garb of bringing new laws in the Panchayat Raj System for personal benefit, Congress party being the main architect of Panchayati Raj System in the country will continue to work for strengthening democratic Institutions in the State to ensure benefits to people at grass roots level.
He said PDP- BJP in the State and Centre Govt can no longer befool people by raising hollow slogans and political exploitation, as that, people have realized that whatever they say or do, they do it for personal, political benefit besides benefitting their blue-eyed persons, besides serving their dirty political ends under the garb of empowering people.
Senor leaders Mohd Anwar Bhat, Hilal Ahmed Shah and MLA Gulzar Ahmad Wani also spoke on the occasion.
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