Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 2: With new Government Business Rules seeking to transfer majority of the powers of executive and legislature in J&K to Lt Governor and the Central Government, the democratic values in new UT have received a stunning blow.
This was stated by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP & former Minister. He regretted that the elected representatives would have very little role in the new set up in the functioning of the elected Government as and when formed and hence may not be able to deliver effectively in the absence of requisite powers. The ultimate loss is that of the public as the disempowerment of their elected representatives would ultimately be the disempowerment of the electorates, he added.
Lambasting the BJP Government at the centre for its authoritarian and dictatorial policies, Harsh said that robbing the only Dogra state in the country of its statehood status coupled with withdrawal of powers of elected representatives would operate most harshly against Jammu people who have always stood by the Nation.
“Clubbing Jammu with Kashmir and divesting it of statehood is more of punishment for Dogra land than for Valley. For how long shall the people of Jammu continue to suffer, to bleed, to sacrifice and to surrender? It’s unfortunate whenever the demand for Jammu statehood grows, the self appointed arbiters of patriotic ardour besides few agents of Kashmir and New Delhi start with their negative misleading campaign,” he observed.
Singh said that BJP should have no inhibitions in granting statehood to Jammu region as its only concern is to ‘teach a lesson’ to the anti-national forces and separatist parties and organizations of Kashmir alone.
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