Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 8: Former Member Parliament and chief patron of Movement for Peace and Territorial Integrity of J&K, Sheikh Abdul Rehman has said that the manner in which all the constitutional institutions in the country which are of paramount importance to run the Government under Parliamentary system of democracy are being weakened during the last eighty years in most dictatorial way, all these factors signifies Presidential form of Government in times to come.
Rehman, a veteran political figure in J&K further said that for the first time in Indian polity, Supreme Court Judges were on the road apprehending great danger to Indian democracy and democratic institutions under the present dispensation. The country witnessed the most unpopular decisions like demonetization, form laws, imposition of GST on household items, toppling of state governments run by opposition parties, scrapping of Art 370 in a most unlawful manners etc.
Former MP regretted that with the scrapping of Article 370 and 35-A neither the terrorism has come to an end, nor we have witnessed development on the ground, what we have seen is direct proxy rule in J&K from New Delhi; unprecedented price hike of essential commodities, all time high unemployment, record dip in GDP, de-validation of Indian rupee as compared to US dollar putting the nation to great loss; sale of public undertaking units to friendly industrialists like LIC, BSNL, Airports, Railways, Ports, Banks etc. but imposing GST on Atta, milk and curd has further made life of poor people further miserable.
“The autocratic style of working of one man, without any consultation with Council of Ministers, party colleagues and opposition parties, announcing or withdrawal of obnoxious laws, all lined up for a unitary Presidential form of Government which is very harmful for the unity and integrity of the country,” Rehman cautioned.
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