Jammu and Kashmir National Democratic Party Indian (NDPI) chief Rajesh Gupta on Friday hit out at the BJP for allegedly destroying the identity, status and rights of the people and said the Centre is deliberately delaying the
holding of early assembly elections in the union territory. He alleged the BJP government was delaying the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on one pretext or another to deny people their democratic rights.
Gupta said that while no initiative has been taken to install a popular government in Jammu and Kashmir, the administration seems to have been outsourced to bureaucrats, mostly from outside the Union Territory and
having hardly any connect with the masses who are deprived of even basic amenities. “The BJP-led government was inventing one excuse after another to deny people their democratic rights and to continue its proxy rule,”
he said while addressing office bearers meeting at New Rehari .
The NDPI leader said that instead of addressing grievances of the people, “BJP government is deliberately delaying the holding of early assembly elections and restoration of full statehood to J&K. The people should gear up for decisive fight”. He alleged the incumbent regime has totally neglected the hilly and remote areas. “BJP has destroyed the identity, status and rights of the people”, he added. He said that the politics of the hatred is a dangerous for the country and urged the people to reject the communal and divisive forces and strengthen the secular and progressive forces in order to strengthen the unity and integrity of the nation and the UT.
The NDPI president said that by delaying the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP is trying to avoid public anger, but its plans will never succeed. Due to the absence of an elected government in Jammu and
Kashmir, people are facing serious problems. People have been left at the mercy of bureaucracy. The government has always been making tall claims about normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir, but when it comes time to hold assembly elections, it is postponed on one pretext or the other. Democracy has been reduced to a farce in Jammu and Kashmir with the political process having been rendered defunct and political parties discredited and discouraged and opposition parties suppressed, he alleged.
Fearing its defeat, BJP avoid election in J&K deliberately: NDPI Chief
