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| NC should not give chance to BJP to delay delimitation, elections in J&K: Harsh Dev Singh | | |  Early Times Report
MAJALTA, Dec 15: Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP said that while the BJP government apparently is averse to the idea of early restoration of popular government in J&K, NC should not give it any chance to further delay the process of delimitation and eventual elections.
"As the Associate members co-opted by the Delimitation Commission belonged to only two parties, the BJP was invariably trying to deflect the blame for delayed delimitation upon NC and to exonerate itself from the inexplicable delay caused in the completion of the said exercise. The centre was running the affairs of J&K through its proxy rule on the plea that delimitation had to be preceded by elections. It however was showing no seriousness either for timely delimitation or Assembly elections. The NC being the only invitee from opposition therefore needed to assert itself in the meeting and to have the responsibility fixed for delay and deny tactics adopted by the centre over the restoration of elected government on the pretext of delimitation during the times of rampaging democratization across the globe," said Singh while addressing public meetings here.
Referring to the Delimitation Commission constituted in 2002 under the chairmanship of Justice Kuldeep Singh, Singh reminisced that it had completed the process of delimiting 4121 assembly constituencies in 28 states of the country besides 538 parliamentary constituencies in a period of less than four years. He said the present Delimitation commission constituted on March 6, 2020 had failed to record any tangible progress till date. This had given rise to speculations that it was acting on the dictations of BJP government to delay the process and ultimately to delay the revival of democracy in J&K.
"The Delimitation Commission which was formed in March, 2020 with tenure of one year had merely conducted one meeting with associate members during its original term thereby necessitating its extension for additional one year. The Commission comprising even the Chief Election Commissioner of India visited J&K in July last to take the feedback from various stakeholders assuring early completion of the process, not a word was heard in this regard from the said body during the past around five months," said Singh.
Singh said that as the ECI is now concentrating on holding elections in various other states of the country much before the expiry of the term of the respective governments therein, the erstwhile state of J&K deprived of democratic government for the last more than three years did not appear to be finding the desired attention of either the poll bodies or the centre.
"With the last assembly having been dissolved in 2018, the elections to legislature were required to be held immediately thereafter in consonance with the rule of law. The BJP regime however not only defied the democratic norms and procedures but also overlooked the basic law enunciated by the Supreme Court which envisaged holding of assembly elections within 6 months in all states where Assemblies were prematurely dissolved," said Singh. He said that Delimitation Commission was an autonomous body constituted under Article 82 of the constitution of India. |
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