Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Jan 30: Former Minister and Chairman AAP J&K today said that with Election Commission of India (ECI) apparently focused on holding elections in nine States of the country besides conducting by-elections in several other States this year, the restoration of democratic government in J&K seems to be the last priority of Government of India as well as ECI.
Addressing public meetings in villages Tandhar and Mandal of Chenani constituency today he said: “All discussions on restoration of democracy ultimately culminate in the so-called successful conduct of Panchayat and Municipal polls. The concept of democracy in BJP rule has been reduced to polls of local bodies with no sincere effort having been made to install an elected Government in J&K,” he further said adding that once again enough hints were being dropped regarding the conduct of polls of local bodies in near future without uttering a word about the conduct of Assembly polls in J&K.
Singh said that the erstwhile State of J&K has been deprived of democratic government for the last more than 4 ½ years, the Assembly having been suspended and eventually dissolved in 2018, did not appear to be finding the desired attention of either poll bodies or the Centre.
He said that with Assembly Elections delayed and denied, political process having been rendered defunct in J&K and political parties discredited and discouraged, the Centre seemed to be hell-bent to deprive J&K of a democratically elected government.
“With uncertainty looming large over the restoration of popular government, the UT of J&K is doomed to be governed by proxies from outside the State having hardly any accountability to the masses whom they rule,” he continued.
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