Displaced people protest against deletion of names from voter lists

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 27: The displaced Kashmiri Pandits of various wards held a protest at Durga Nagar against deletion of their names from voter lists of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and thereby depriving them from casting the vote in civic body elections.
The protestors’ raising slogans termed it a total discrimination and murder of democracy by some persons in the administration who are acting on the behest of some politicians having vested interests in debarring displaced people to vote in these elections.
The protestors said that they had polled their vote in 2005 Municipal elections and it is astonishing that the same were deleted from voter lists under a big conspiracy.
The protestors termed the decision of the authorities totally illogical that the displaced persons from Valley have to cast their vote for municipal wards of Srinagar city and other towns in Valley. They said what will be fun of casting their vote in Kashmir when they are not residing there for last 30 years now as they were forced to flee from the Valley by the terrorists supported by majority community.
They said the civic body polls are altogether different from general elections as local bodies and municipalities are working for the development of local area. They said when the displaced people residing in these localities, pay development charges to Municipal Corporation how can’t they vote in the elections.
Moreover when the people of other districts from Jammu who are residing in these colonies can cast the vote why not the displaced persons from the Valley and why the double standards, they asked?.

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