Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 21: JKNPP chairman and former Minister Harshdev Singh today said that the legitimate and elected Government alone could represent and honour the popular sentiment of the people of J&K but the BJP led Central Government appeared to be averse to the idea of holding Assembly elections in the new set up.
Singh questioned the rationale behind repeated deferment of Assembly Elections in J&K and regretted that the Government in J&K seemed to have been outsourced to bureaucrats from outside the UT, both retired and in-service. He was addressing public meetings in village Sunetar and Kirmoo of Ramnagar constituency today.
The former Minister said that the inclusion of J&K civil services under AGMUT cadre and conduct of UT affairs through Advisors and bureaucrats mostly from other State amply revealed the intentions of the centre which seemed hell bent to continue its proxy rule in J&K through these outside bureaucrats. He said that with political process having been rendered defunct in the new UT, political parties discredited and discouraged and opposition parties suppressed, the democracy had been reduced to a farce in J&K.
Pointing towards euphoria created post Article 370 abrogation in the name of fresh Delimitation of Assembly constituencies, Singh said that it too had petered out with hardly any progress having been achieved in this regard. The Delimitation Commission had held barely one meeting with its associate members which too had failed to generate any hope. The uncertainty was however allowed to continue by making misleading statements about delimitation and early Assembly elections, regretted Harsh.
Asserting that people’s Government alone could fulfill the aspirations of the general masses, Singh sought early restoration of democracy by putting an end to proxy rule imposed by the Centre in J&K.
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