Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 12: Chief patron of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (NPP) Prof Bhim Singh has demanded dissolution of State Assembly and fresh elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking to media-persons here today, Prof Singh urged President of India to intervene into the serious crisis developed in J&K and revise the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to dissolve the State Assembly without any delay so that fresh elections may be held this year to elect a new Government in accordance with the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir.
The NPP leader further said that the political situation in J&K is beyond any repairs and new Government of the cannot be constituted only to please the power hungry politicians responsible for mal-practices, militancy, lawlessness and political mess in the State. He said that the N N Vohra has imposed Governor Rule, though late and that demands immediate dissolution of the J&K Assembly so that fresh elections may be held by the end of this year.
Prof Singh also emphasized that the Governor should invoke special powers and introduce delimitation of the Assembly constituencies. Firstly, all the reserved Assembly seats in Jammu region should be rotated without any delay which have been kept under reservation for nearly two decades. He also demanded that the Assembly constituencies should be delimited according to the Constitution of new districts in the State as the law does not permit an Assembly constituency to be extended to another district.
The NPP chief patron said that the President of India is vested with power to amend Article 370 and he should end this draconian provision inserted in Article 370. He demanded that Jammu and Kashmir should be reorganized by establishing twin States, Jammu State and Kashmir Ghati State by giving each State ‘state powers’ so that each State shall act of its own with full control over subjects mentioned in the state list (schedule -VII). He said that the new Confederation of States may have one Governor and one High Court with the subjects in the concurrent list may remain common. He suggested that Ladakh region, if the people there, so decide may be brought under the Union Territory list.
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