Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 28: Asking the political parties not to poke their nose in community institutions like Panchayats, All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), an apex body of ex-Panchayat members of the State said that Panchayats are just a community institution to look after the local developmental and other affairs of the village and they have nothing to do with any kind of politics.
In a day long convention organized by All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference here at summer capital at Srinagar on Saturday, ex-Panchayat leaders from across Kashmir valley urged upon the Governor Administration to conduct the PRI (Panchayati Raj Institutions) elections on non- party and non-political basis.
Addressing the convention, Shafiq Mir, chairman AJKPC said that due to absence of local governing institutions like Panchayats the political loot and monopoly was at its peak at grass root level and only way to stop this loot and plunder is to establish local governing institutions on non political basis and deliver the justice. He said due to the non-participation of good and honest people in such institutions, a mafia has taken over the whole system from top to bottom with political patronage and they don’t want honest people to come in such institutions who can block their corrupt practices.
Mir said that a wrong impression has been created that Panchayats are political institutions while the fact is that it is a community institution which is in place in the villages since ages and it has nothing to do with any kind of politics. He said all this impression has been created due to the interference of political parties in such institutions. He asked the Panchayat members to remain away from all political parties and focus only on the developmental issues of their respective villages.
A resolution was also adopted in the convention through which the ex-Panchayat members thanked Governor NN Vohra for strengthening PRI Act by undoing the amendments made by the previous BJP-PDP Government.
Aftaab Ahmed Beg vice chairman, Bashir Ahmed Malik provincial president, Imtiaz Afzal Beg general secretary and Mushtaq Ahmed Khan chief organizer also spoke on the occasion.
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