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| Centre hell-bent to continue proxy rule in J&K: Harsh Dev Singh | | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 19: Alleging subversion of democracy Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman National Panthers Party (NPP) has said that the BJP government seems to be hell-bent to continue its proxy rule in J&K in violation of the principles of constitution and the rule of law.
He said that while the BJP government had all along been taking the plea that elections in J&K would be held after the completion of delimitation process, the commission seemed to be dilly dallying over the issue of delimiting the constituencies for reasons best known to it.
Pointing towards the constitutional provisions and the rulings of the Supreme Court, Singh said that the top court of the country had categorically observed that fresh assembly elections in all states, wherein the legislatures were prematurely dissolved, needed to be conducted and completed within a period of six months.
He divulged that even in its recent judgment pertaining to Maharashtra, the Supreme Court re-iterated that there is statutory obligation to fill assembly seats within six months so as to ensure that the people are not deprived of due representation. “You can’t create a constitutional void, a hiatus situation for the constituencies”, the Supreme Court has observed adding further that it is the people who eventually suffer in the absence of an elected representative to espouse their cause.
Singh said that delaying the elections on the pretext of non-completion of the delimitation process is also unjustified. He revealed that when the State of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated and the state of Telangana created, no delimitation was held and assembly elections were held immediately thereafter. It was then stated that no delimitation can take place in the country before first census after the year 2026 in view of constitutional amendment effected by the then NDA government in 2001-2002.
“In the case of J&K however, the very same NDA was adopting different yardsticks to delay and deny elections with a view to continue its proxy rule. He said that Delimitation Commission working at snail pace also had given rise to speculations that it was doing so at the behest of BJP. With the people having been deprived of popular rule and their right to have an elected government of their own the onus lies on the ECI and Delimitation Commission to explain and justify their role as autonomous bodies,” said Singh.
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