Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Oct 19: Demanding immediate dissolution of J&K Assembly which has been bizarrely kept under suspended animation for the last four months, scores of NPP activists led by Yash Paul Kundal Ex-MLA and State president Young Panthers held a massive protest demonstration here, today. The agitated activists while raising anti-BJP slogans torched the effigy of GoI for holding Constitution hostage for vested political interests.
Referring to the political impasse created in the State in the wake of suspension of Assembly following the collapse of BJP-PDP Government, Kundal maintained that suspension of Assembly was supposed to be a temporary period under the Constitution in which the Governor invited a political party or combination of parties to claim the formation of the Government but it’s unjustifiable prolongation only amounted to flagrant violation of law notwithstanding the prevalent practices and precedents.
He said that with almost all political parties except BJP having conveyed their unwillingness to form Government the dissolution of Assembly was inevitable and required immediate attention of the Governor and the President of India.
Describing the J&K Assembly which had been kept under suspension for the last four months as dictatorial, autocratic and unprecedented in the history of the country, he said that the GoI was running the proxy Government in the State on its whims and fancies in an undemocratic manner. “It was shocking that all the powers and privileges of members of regular Assembly were also restored to the members of suspended Assembly after the same were withdrawn by the erstwhile Governor. Moreover, several MLAs announced CDF releases during the ULB elections in violation of the Model Code of Conduct with none to take cognizance. It is brazen loot and plunder of public money which needed to be checked immediately”, Kundal said.
He further maintained that BJP’s manipulative skills and Machiavellian strategies of running the proxy government would not prove good for a sensitive state like J&K. He appealed to the President of India for his indulgence so that all speculations were set at rest and the dissolution of suspended Assembly ensured forthwith to pave the way for holding fresh elections in the state at the earliest.
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