Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 27: The Kashmiri Pandit Sabha (KPS) today demanded for conducting the bye elections for vacant seats in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
The demand was raised by the members of KPS, in a meeting which was held under the Chairmanship of its president K K Khosa.
Pertinent to mention that the similar demand was made by Dr Farooq Abdullah former Chief Minister and president of the national conference for conducting the bye elections for the two vacancies in the J&K legislative assembly, along with the bye elections for the assemblies of other states and union territories already notified by the election commission of India.
Dr Abdullah has also requested the election commission of India to hold elections for the four vacant Rajya Sabha seats from the Union Territory which is overdue, in order to provide opportunity to the people of the union territory to raise their issues in the parliament of India and get them resolved.
The KPS also expressed its deep concern over the fact that the national conference president did not say anything about the filling up of five seats in the assembly by nomination even after more than seven months of the formation of the assembly.
“This has deprived not only the Kashmiri Pandits but also others from raising their issues in the assembly in order to seek their redressal,” said Khosa.
The Sabha had thanked the union government earlier for accepting the proposal of the delimitation commission to give representation to the Kashmiri Pandits in the assembly by nomination of two members of the community including one lady member.
The Sabha further appealed to the LG Manoj Sinha to make these nominations at the earliest so that the Kashmiri Pandits get an opportunity to raise their issues in the union territory assembly in its next session and also use the good offices of these nominated MLAs who will act as a bridge between the Government and the community.
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