Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 19: Alleging subversion of democracy and denial of popular Govt in J&K for the last more than 3½ years, chairman JKNPP and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said that the BJP Govt seemed to be hell-bent to continue its proxy rule in J&K in violation of the principles of constitution and the rule of law.
He said that while the BJP Govt had all along been taking the plea that Elections in J&K would be held after the completion of Delimitation process, the Commission seemed to be dilly dallying over the issue of delimiting the J&K constituencies for reasons best known to it.
Pointing towards the constitutional provisions and the rulings of the Supreme Court, Singh said that the top court of the country had categorically observed that fresh Assembly elections in all States, wherein the legislatures were prematurely dissolved, needed to be conducted and completed within a period of six months.
“You can’t create a constitutional void, a hiatus situation for the constituencies”, the Supreme Court has again observed adding further that it is the people who eventually suffer in the absence of an elected representative to espouse their cause. It therefore is a punishment to the people, said Singh while quoting the judgment of the Apex Court of the country.
Singh said that delaying the elections on the pretext of non-completion of the Delimitation process is also unjustified. He revealed that when the State of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated and the state of Telangana created, no Delimitation was held and Assembly elections were held immediately thereafter. It was then stated that no delimitation can take place in the country before first census after the year 2026 in view of constitutional Amendment effected by the then NDA Govt in 2001-2002. In the case of J&K however, the very same NDA was adopting different yardsticks to delay and deny elections with a view to continue its proxy rule.
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