Amendment in Panchayat Act to strengthen democracy: BJP

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 18: Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, senior BJP and Kashmiri Pandit leader and incharge, Department of Political Affairs and Feedback, J&K-BJP has taken a serious exception to statement of former Union Minister and Congress leader, Shashi Tharror who in a virtual address to the Lahore Literary Festival criticized the Government of Indian and the people of India thus bringing an entirely internal issue to the discourse in the third party country like Pakistan.
Chrungoo said Tharror drew a parallel of this with the recent statements of Congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah in favour of China which is totally unfortunate.
The BJP leader in a statement issued here today also complimented the Government for the required amendment in the Panchayati Raj Rules for Jammu and Kashmir and said it is a great step to take democracy to the grass root level. “This will open new opportunities of participation in the Government by the public representatives with a developmental agenda in focus”, he added.
He was reacting to the major path breaking step to set up, for the first time, the District Development Councils (DDCs) in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The J&K Panchayati Raj Rules amended to provide DDCs is a major democratic advance which will also require delimitation of the constituencies and their elections for 14 segments in each district. Thus it will accommodate at least 280 public representatives among the district socio-political activists for participation in the democratic and developmental processes throughout the UT.
“The envisaged District Planning Committees and portfolios in the District Development Councils in the UT are also a big stride in this connection which will give a right to the elected representative to choose the right priorities while planning for his/her district and the constituency he or she represents. It is a revolutionary measure that has the blessings of the PM, Narendra Modi and the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah”, added Chrungoo.

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