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| Political leaders pessimistic on civic and Panchayat elections | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 25: Leaders of various political parties fear that if the current turmoil in the Kashmir valley continued; the possibilities of conducting civic and Panchayat elections in the state were likely to be remote.
The Government has plans of holding the civic and Panchayat elections between September and October.
Senior PDP leader, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, said that "we had decided to start a campaign for the civic and Panchayat elections but in the light of the current turmoil we have postponed the programme."
In reply to a question Bhat said "it is too early to say whether the elections can be held as per the Government plan.
"He said the situation that exists in Kashmir right now was not conducive for holding the elections.
He held the ruling coalition leadership responsible for the deteriorating law an order situation.
He said that whatever success the PDP leadership, during the time Mufti Mohammad Sayeed headed the government, had achieved in improving the security situation and political atmosphere in Jammu and Kashmir has been allowed to go "waste by the weak leadership of Omar Abdullah."
Working Chairman Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), Harsh Dev Singh, said that all possible measures needed to be taken to improve the security environment so that elections to the civic bodies and Panchayats were not delayed or postponed.
He said that Panchayat elections had been held in various areas of the state in 2001 but since 2006 even the elected committees stand dissolved.
JKNPP leader said that as far as the situation in the Jammu region is concerned the overall political and security environment was conducive for the civic and Panchayat elections but the government can ill afford to hold the elections in the Jammu region and postpone it in the Kashmir valley adding that such an exercise could be a bad political step.
Senior BJP leader, Ashok Khajuria, said that the government needed to initiate strict measures against those who try to vitiate the atmosphere in Kashmir so that there was no reason for postponing the Panchayat and civic elections.
He said already the separatists have given a call to the people to boycott the elections and it was the duty of the government to defeat the designs of the separatists.
Senior Congress leaders too are perturbed over the current situation in Kashmir.
They supported the government measures against the separatists and against those indulging in stone pelting.
The Congress leaders, wishing to remain unidentified, said that it was the duty of the ruling coalition to initiate measures that could instill confidence among people so that they participate in the elections.
One senior National Conference leader said that the party leadership deserved credit for having organised incident free Panchayat elections in 2001 after a gap of 23 years.
He said that though the elections could not be held in sensitive areas owing to security related problems majority of Panchayat committees had elected members.
The leader said that the party wanted to strengthen the democratic structure at the grassroot level.
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