Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: Former Minister and chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) Harshdev Singh today alleged that the ‘law makers’ and specially the BJP MLAs are blissfully ignorant of the laws.
Commenting on the arguments given by the BJP MLAs in the Legislative Assembly on Saturday while protesting over the issue of revocation of PSA on Yasir Alfaz, the person accused of desecration of temple in Janipur locality of Jammu, the NPP leader remarked that ‘little knowledge is dangerous thing’. The role played by the legislators in the House from Jammu appeared to be frustrating and strange for many.
He said that the BJP MLAs created a ruckus inside the Legislative Assembly on Saturday claiming that PSA could be revoked only by the District Magistrate and that the Govt had no authority to issue any such order. Ridiculing the ignorance of the BJP leaders, Mr Singh said that the BJP MLAs held the House to ransom over their flawed version of law without knowing the exact legal position on the subject. He said that rather than making the Govt answerable for revocation of PSA on the offender without the report of Medical Board constituted for the purpose, the BJP MLAs chose to take the flawed logic that only District Magistrate could revoke it
He said that even the Law Minister failed to correct and inform the ignorant MLAs that Govt alone had the powers to revoke the PSA order under Section 18 and Section 19 of the Public Safety Act and not the District Magistrate. He regretted that the MLAs who make laws for the posterity were blissfully ignorant of the legal position on the subject on which they had raised a storm.
Elucidating further Mr Singh said that the Section 8 of the Public Safety Act provides that PSA has to be invoked by Divisional Commissioner or the District Magistrate to be further approved by the Govt order Sec 8 (4) and that it can be revoked at any time by the Govt order Sec 18 and Section 19 of the Public Safety Act. He said that District Magistrate had no powers to revoke PSA once slapped under Section 8 of the Act. He said that raking up an issue for discussion and disruption of proceedings on flawed version of law only goes to prove the political and intellectual bankruptcy of BJP and its half baked experts.
The BJP MLAs ought to have vehemently demanded the invocation of PSA against those who unfurled Pakistan and ISIS flags on Friday last and openly announced to intensify the anti- India campaign, he added.
Asserting that mental instability was no ground for revocation of PSA, Mr. Harshdev Singh further demanded the immediate booking of all conspirators behind the sacrilegious acts in the temple besides the separatists and others anti nationals who indulged in seditious activities on Friday last.
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