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| BJP has crushed J&K under its feet: Harsh Dev Singh | | |  Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Nov 20: Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP today said that the party which stormed to power on the slogans of 'good governance', 'accountability' and 'Sabka saath sabka vikas' has literally crushed Jammu along with Kashmir under its feet. The state of J&K has been dismantled and further demoted into two UT's, something unseen and unheard in the history of country's democratic jurisprudence, he said.
"No state in the country has ever been reduced to the status of Union Territory except J&K as a part of weird experimentation being conducted by the BJP government treating the erstwhile state as a workshop. Not only that the people have been deprived of popular rule. The constitution of India which assumes a democratically elected government to run the affairs of its varied administrative units is being brazenly defied. Even the judgment of the Supreme Court mandating timely elections within six months in all states /UT's where assemblies are prematurely dissolved is being ruthlessly violated," said Singh, a former minister.
Singh said the 'proxy' rule of centre has been imposed upon the people of J&K through a handful of obsequious bureaucrats and defanged experts requisitioned from other parts of the country and hardly having any stakes in the betterment of the UT or well being of its people. He said this while addressing public meetings in Upper Barmeen, Hartrayan and Nanansu in Chenani-Ghordi constituency.
"A plethora of new laws falling in state list have been extended to the new UT through the induct route of Home Ministry by delaying and denying a bonafide legislature which alone has the competence to make laws. The 'Babus' sitting in Delhi enact legislation for J&K which is extended to the erstwhile state without taking into account the aspirations of the people. While the laws in central list and even concurrent list could be extended to the state/UT , the enacting and extending of laws as enumerated in state list for J&K by outside 'Babus' deliriously oblivious of the challenges and diversities of J&K is antithetical to the spirit of democracy and is violative of constitutional guarantees," said Singh.
Singh said that the system exhibited explicit signs of collapse with no takers for the voices of sanity fighting for justice, equity and fair play. Favouritism, nepotism and corruption had become the order of the day. While opposition continued to be hammered through the iron fist of police, the common man complaining of denial of civic amenities and other injustice was also being dubbed as anti-national or 'tukde tukde gang'. Dissent was being crushed through the coercive apparatus of state and all voices critical of BJP's policies dealt with sternly.
"The bureaucratic rule having hardly any accountability to the people was indulging in 'My way or Highway' approach with least concern for the woes and sufferings of the common masses. With the general public having no access to the helmsmen, and none to listen to the injustice heaped upon them, they were feeling crushed under the feet of BJP's autocratic and bureaucratic set up working as unquestionable despots in J&K," said Singh. |
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