Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 26: Emphasizing the need for unity amongst the various political parties to ensure revival of democracy and rule of law in the country, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and leader of J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP), said that collective efforts were required to be made to provide an alternative to the present dictatorial regime of BJP.
“The BJP Govt would continue to harass, humiliate and persecute its rivals and to deprive them of their basic democratic and constitutional rights until and unless the opposition leaders join hands against its authoritarian and despotic rule,” he observed, while addressing a workers’ meeting in Udhampur today.
Singh said that disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament membership was the cruellest joke in the constitutional history of the country which would be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in democratic jurisprudence the world over.
“BJP is hell bent on demolishing the opposition. It wants to establish one party system. It’s breaking opposition parties through money and muscle power. It was further resorting to coercion, threats, intimidation and persecution to bully the opposition leaders and eventually make them fall in line. The opposition leaders are either dubbed as anti-nationals or intimidated and harassed through Govt agencies including ED, NIA and CBI,” he said. On the other hand, he added, BJP leaders accused of corrupt practices, land grabbing, dis-proportionate assets and other fishy deals are being given immunity while questioning even the sincere motives of opposition leaders.
Harsh Dev Singh claimed that gradual slide of democracy into dictatorship was more clearly discernible in J&K where people were being subjected to the most unpopular rule of outside bureaucrats who hardly have any knowledge of J&K and its peculiar problems. “The Govt is resorting to strong arm methods to evict the poor, indigent masses from their small, marginal land holdings and uprooting their houses, shops and other permanent structures without any qualms of conscience. Unemployment is at its peak and Govt jobs are being openly auctioned,’ he alleged and reiterated that it’s high time therefore that all political parties except BJP should join hands to restore justice with dignity to the people of the incarcerated land of J&K.
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