Urgent need to restore democracy in J&K by holding elections: Vakil

Excelsior Correspondent
SOPORE, June 24: Senior vice president of J&K Peoples Conference and former Minister Abdul Gani Vakil today said that the Govt, especially PM and Home Minister, has failed to do justice to the aspirations of the common masses of Jammu and Kashmir and there is urgent need to restore democracy in the J&K.
Vakil was addressing party workers’ meeting in several areas of Rafiabad and Sopore including Sher Colony in Sopore, Achabal, Sonen Saidnaar and Dundoosa in Rafiabad.
In his addressing Vakil said that the people of J&K have been denied their constitutional right to elect a popular Government to run the state of affairs and said that it is a travesty that in a great democracy, a region is denied the opportunity to elect its own Government while administration is outsourced to bureaucrats brought in from other states and stationed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Vakil stressed on the Union Government to start working towards holding polls in J&K which are long overdue so that Government elected by its own people can run the UT affairs as installed system by them is failing on the ground.
On one hand, the Home Minister claims that the level of violence has significantly decreased, the security situation has improved, and his direct rule has restored normalcy in J&K. If this is the case, why is the Government of India delaying holding elections? Vakil questioned, “When G20 can be held in J&K, when Amarnath Yatra can be peacefully conducted, why can’t elections be held?”
Vakil stated that if peace has returned to J&K, then the delay in holding Assembly elections smells of a conspiracy against J&K, or else the Govt must admit its failure in failing to establish a conducive and peaceful environment in J&K to conduct elections.
Later, Vakil visited several families in these areas who have lost their loved ones recently and expressed sympathies with the bereaved families.

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