NPP: Democracy in J&K made captive to impulses of rulers

Jammu, Mar 12 Accusing the BJP-drove government at the Center of delaying get together polls in Jammu and Kashmir, National Panthers Party Tuesday said the forswearing of popularity based rights to people could prove counterproductive.

NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh lamented that the get together races was conceded in Jammu and Kashmir on "shaky reasons" of security imperatives.

"Union Ministry of Home Affairs which had guaranteed to give sufficient security to concurrent surveys took a U-turn at the eleventh hour just for political reasons," Singh, a former state minister, told reporters here.

Recalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "repeated" calls to hold simultaneous polls the country over, he said the Centre went back on its guarantees and neglected to execute even the PM's affirmation in spite of agreement among every single ideological group in the state over the issue.

Reiterating the need for early elections to the state assembly, Singh said the delaying it not only amounted to subversion of democracy but also violated the Supreme Court orders.

"The people couldn't be denied of their law based rights in the state just for the political inexpediencies of the ruling party at the centre by taking the plea of security related issues," he said.

With the state prior staying under the Governor rule for a half year pursued by the President's standard, it is entirely unjustified and unlawful to have further expansion of the Central Rule after May 21, he said.

While ridiculing the statements over security constraints, he said it was "ludicrous" to take the plea of shortage of security personnel for holding simultaneous polls for Parliament and state get together as the quantity of surveying stations to be provided food by the security staff for both the races would continue as before.

Indeed, even the Supreme Court had decided that decisions to administrative gatherings in states, where congregations are rashly broken up, ought to be held inside a time of a half year.

"With the time of a half year lapsing on May 21 in Jammu and Kashmir, the races to the authoritative get together were required to be held inside the time allotment recommended by the pinnacle court and a famous government introduced before the stipulated due date , Singh said.

He said the democracy could not be held "hostage to the political expediencies" of the ruling party at the centre.

Flaying the BJP-drove NDA for denying the people from securing the express their popularity based rights, Singh said the general population couldn't be additionally denied of their entitlement to pick their very own delegates and to have an elected government in the state.

"In the event that the metropolitan and the panchayat elections could be held in the express, the deferment of the assembly elections on pointless grounds made no sense and method of reasoning," he said.