Jammu and Kashmir completes 5 years without an elected government; Chorus rises for early voting

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Monday completed five years without an elected government, drawing a scathing attack from the mainstream National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party over the delay in restoring democracy in the union territory. On August 5, 2019, the Center abrogated Article 370, which stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status, and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

PDP President Mehbooba Mufti resigned as Chief Minister on June 19, 2018 after coalition partner BJP withdrew support to her coalition government. In a sarcastic tweet, National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah said on Monday that democracy in India ends where Jammu and Kashmir begins.

“Democracy is in our veins, it is in our culture’; India is the mother of democracy’; India is the temple of democracy.” Today it has been 5 years in the central rule. Democracy ends where Jammu and Kashmir begins.

PDP spokesperson Mohit Bhan said that the entire country should hang its head in shame. “The entire country and its leadership should hang their heads in shame for calling themselves the ‘mother of democracy’. J&K remained under central rule for 5 years with the last election held 9 years ago. People’s rights and representation There is blatant disregard for. Terrible,” he said in a tweet.

Meanwhile, there is a growing chorus for holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir with all political parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), urging the Election Commission to announce the poll dates. The last assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were held in 2014.