Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 8: Raising banner of revolt against the Coalition Government led by Omar Abdullah in the State, the Valley based Sarpanchs and Panchs have announced to teach this Government lesson in the coming Assembly elections.
The decision was taken in a day long convention of Panchayat members organized by All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference ( an amalgam organization of elected Panchs and Sarpanchs of the State) at Srinagar today. The decision was announced by All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference Chairman Shafiq Mir in a press conference soon after the convention.
After the largely attended convention, Mr Mir said that the present Government has not only deceived the Panchayat members, it has also failed on all fronts of development, justice and delivery. Mir said, the Panchayat leaders have decided either to field own candidates in the Assembly elections or to support any other party because the present Government in the State has proved most worst in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. They gave week’s dead line to the State Government to raise the honorarium of Panchayat members and to take the decision regarding the empowerment of Panchayats or to get ready for the consequences in the coming Assembly elections.
On query whether the Panchayat members will go for boycott in the Assembly elections, Mir replied that the boycott politics has failed in the State and it is better to teach them lesson through ballot. Mir also criticized the present Central Government alleging that the BJP Government has deviated from its earlier stand and manifesto saying that when the BJP was out of power its leaders were raising issues of Panchayats in the State but since they came in to power they have gone completely silent on the issue. Pointing towards the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the State, Mir expressed his anguish that PM didn’t bother to meet any one in the State which needed healing touch.
Cautioning the Central Government about the security situation of the state, Mir has warned that before any election exercise in the State Government must take steps regarding the safty of Panchayat members as already in the Parliamentary elections the Panchayat members were targeted and killed . “We have already lost our nine Sarpanchs inquiry is needed to be conducted into the matter,” he added.
Others who spoke included, Imtiaz Afzal Beg, Bashir Ahmed Malik, Ghulam Hassan Panzoo, Bashir Ahmed Mir, Memoona Begum, Chowdhary Farooq Ahmed, Sanaullah Khan and Manzoor Ahmed.
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