Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: The leaders and activists of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today assembled outside Nirvachan Bhawan Jammu and took out mock funeral procession of J&K Democracy under the leadership of Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and Chairman AAP J&K SCC.
The protesters raised slogans against ruling BJP and Election Commission. They accused BJP leadership of throttling democracy in J&K only for the sake of continuance of their proxy rule in the erstwhile State.
Alleging subversion of democracy and denial of popular Govt in J&K, Mr Singh said that BJP led Govt was inventing one excuse after the other to deny democratic rights to the people of erstwhile State and to continue its proxy rule through backdoor. He said that while no initiative had been taken to restore popular rule in J&K, the Govt in the UT seemed to have been outsourced to bureaucrats mostly from outside the State, having hardly any connect with the general masses who were suffering for even the basic amenities.
“The silence of GoI and ECI over J&K while holding elections for HP and Gujarat amply revealed the intentions of the Centre which seemed hell bent to continue its indirect rule in J&K through these bureaucrats,” he said, adding that with the political process having been rendered defunct in the new UT, political parties discredited and discouraged and opposition parties suppressed, the democracy had been reduced to a farce in J&K which had eventually given rise to present tensions in the Valley and elsewhere in J&K.
Maintaining that legitimate, elected Govt alone could deal with obsequious challenges posed by the rogue nation, Mr Singh questioned the rationale behind repeated postponement of Assembly elections in J&K. Seeking early revival of democracy by putting an end to proxy rule imposed by the Centre in J&K, he said that the opposition must unite to save the Constitution and Rule of law in J&K.
Prominent among those, who spoke on the occasion, included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap Singh, Parshotam Parihar, Raj Kapoor, Khajoor Singh, Rampaul Sharma, Amrik Singh, Raj Kumar Salaria, D L Radha, Satpaul Singh, Ajay Singh, Shiv Raina, Rohit Sharma, Vijay Kumar, Sanjeev Gupta, Sunil Dutt and others.
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