Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 10: While leading a protest outside Nirvachan Bhawan, former Minister and senior AAP leader, Harsh Dev Singh accused the Election Commission of India of working under the tutelage of BJP by denying elections and allowing proxy rule of BJP to continue in the troubled territory of J&K.
He said that the ECI was holding elections in other States without uttering a single word about J&K elections, which are being denied for the last four years since 2018 and which may never be held as long as BJP remains in power at the centre.
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“So much so that even the post of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has been kept vacant for the last several months after the posting of Hirdesh Kumar as Deputy Election Commissioner in New Delhi. And while the date of publication of final electoral rolls was advanced from October 25 to November 25, not a word was being said about the restoration of democratic Govt in J&K which continued to reel under despotic, authoritarian rule of BJP for the last over 4 years,” he said while addressing the media persons after a protest held by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists outside Nirvachan Bhawan Jammu here today.
Raising slogans, the AAP workers questioned the ECI role in delaying and denying democratic Govt in J&K. They were demanding immediate elections for J&K Assembly.
Singh said that flimsy excuses were being given from time to time to deprive the people of J&K of their right to have a democratic Govt and to continue the proxy rule of BJP therein. “BJP believes that if it could hold the reins of power and run the affairs of State without elections, why at all should it take the risk of seeking peoples’ mandate?” observed Singh adding that the people of erstwhile State and its political leadership seemed to have reconciled to the backdoor rule imposed by the saffron regime.
Prominent among those, who spoke on the occasion, included Yashpaul Kundal (Ex-Minister), Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap Singh, Parshotam Parihar, Raj Kapoor, Capt (rtd) Sultan Singh, Amit Kapoor, Rajiv Mahajan, Kapoor Singh, Shankaar Singh Sanju, Bodh Raj Sharma, Yashpaul Kumar, Maan Singh, Subash Charak, Lehar Singh besides others.
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