Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 5: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leadership while favouring elections on time, has opined that there is no purpose in delaying Assembly elections in the J&K State.
In a crucial meeting of the State BSP unit held under the chairmanship of National general secretary of the party Narender Kashyap (MP, Rajya Sabha) and attended by Avtar Singh Karimpuri (MP, RS), State coordinators Gurnam Choudhary and Parkash Bharti, State president Tulsi Dass Langeh, vice president R L Chadgotra, State general secretary Rakesh Wazir, Ex-MLA Som Nath, S R Majotra and others, the party members discussed in detail the strategy being chalked out in view of the visit of Dy Elections Commissioner of India, Vinod Zutshi and the proposed meeting taken by him with different political parties including BSP at Jammu on October 8, with regard to holding of State Assembly elections.
During the meeting, the BSP leadership also chalked out strategy and constituted a team of the senior functionaries of the Party including State president Tulsi Dass Langeh and State general secretary, Rakesh Wazir to represent the Party during meeting with Dy Election Commissioner of India and clear the stand of the party that BSP is of the considered opinion that elections should be help on time, well before the expiry date of the present Government. The leadership also wanted that elections should be held under popular Government and the State may not come under the Governor’s rule for the conduct of polls.
Mr Kashyap said although rains and floods recently created havoc in Kashmir and some other parts and some may suggest to the visiting DEC, but as far as holding of elections are concerned, in the affected Srinagar areas the polls could be held in the last phase, somewhere around mid of December and by this time, the things would be normal there. In rest of the constituencies of the State, the elections can be held earlier, Kashyap maintained.
The BSP leader said that even the perception that staff deputed for rehabilitation will get deputed to elections is wrong because most of the staff which is deputed for relief work is from Revenue ( Patwari/ Girdawar/ Naib- Tehsildars/ Tehsildars) and the staff which generally does the poll related work is mostly from Education Department and they are free from relief/ rehabilitation work even today. Mr Kashyap firmly supported the Assembly elections on time in the State.
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