Excelsior Correspondent
CHENANI, Dec 26: Re-iterating the demand for early restoration of democracy in J&K and holding of early Assembly polls, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and Chairman AAP J&K SCC, today said that the erstwhile State was being illogically and illegitimately deprived of popular Govt in violation of Constitutional guarantees as well as the ‘obiter dicta’ laid down by the Apex Court over the subject.
“A remote controlled system of governance could not be the solution for the woes and sufferings of the people of J&K. It’s the local leaders and local Ministers and elected MLAs who could better address the concerns of their people and bail them out from their sufferings and pains. The proxy rule of BJP has only led to peoples’s alienation,” he said while addressing public meetings in Kalound and Ladha villages of Chenani constituency today.
Alleging that the `proxy’ Govt imposed by the Centre was acting as a mute spectator, Harsh Dev Singh said that no concrete measures were being taken to address the chaotic power situation which had created massive resentment all over the UT. “The situation is the same with regard to other deptts including Health, Education, RDD where corruption is at its peak with no takers for the genuine concerns of the aggrieved masses,” he maintained.
Lampooning the inordinate delay in holding Assembly elections in the new UT, Singh said that the Centre’s proxy rule in J&K was antithetical to democracy and amounted to subversion of the constitution. “The Constitution categorically provided for a federal system of Governance with timely elections for the Union as well as State legislatures. The people can’t be deprived of their legitimate rights to have an elected Govt of their own,” he said, adding that delay in restoration of popular Govt was further violative of the directives of the Supreme Court which has held that election should be completed within six months in all those States/UTs wherein the assemblies are dissolved prematurely.
Prominent among others, who spoke on the occasion, included Manju Singh, Rampaul Bhagat, Prem Nath (Sarpanch), Rangil Singh, Naresh Romy and Raj Kumar.
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