Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: Jammu and Kashmir BJP general secretary and former Minister, Dr. Devinder Kumar Manyal, has refuted the assertion of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti that BJP has sensed defeat which is the reason for delaying the Panchayat and Local Bodies polls in the UT. He termed this totally false, misleading and baseless.
“To keep targetting BJP on one pretext or the other, provides fuel to regional parties like PDP, to run their political shops”, Manyal said and added that such parties have already been pushed to the wall for the kind of opportunist politics they indulge in.
Dr. Devinder Kumar Manyal said that BJP has registered splendid victories in all the successive elections in the past and the morale of its activists is very high and there is no word like defeat in our dictionary. He said that the PDP chief should not forget that BJP got massive mandates in earlier polls of Panchayats and Local Bodies, with all time high scoring in Kashmir Valley as well.
The BJP general secretary, at the same time, reminded Madam Mufti that conducting elections is not in the purview of a political party but it is the sole prerogative of the election authorities.
Dr. Manyal further said that it is the BJP only which has always raised concern for strengthening the democratic institutions in Jammu and Kashmir. It was during the BJP rule at the Centre that elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions were held here, taking democracy at the grass root level and ensured the participation of a common man in decision making bodies, which is the true spirit of a healthy democracy.
A glance in the past will itself prove that parties like Congress, NC and PDP, did not care to hold the elections for years together in Jammu & Kashmir when in power in erstwhile State. Again it was the NC and PDP, which contested elections at one stage and declared to remain away from taking part in elections on other stage, this is the political duplicity of a party which is directionless, issueless and making failed attempts to regain the lost faith of the people, who have rejected the politics of appeasement on communal lines and endorsed ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’ plank of BJP under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
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