Friday 15th May, 2026
J&K National Panthers Party protests against delay over Assembly polls
Jammu, Apr 28: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party on Saturday protested against delay and denial over conduct of Assembly polls in the state.
Spearheaded by NPP chairman and former minister, Harsh Dev Singh, party activists, staged protest demonstration and accused Centre and the Governor’s administration for “deliberately” denying the people of the State their democratic rights.
The protesters also raised anti-BJP slogans and torched effigy of GOI and Governor’s administration.
Lambasting the State government run by the Governor’s administration for creating hurdles in the way of the Assembly elections in J&K without any rationale, Mr Singh regretted that democracy in the State was being guillotined ruthlessly for the political expediencies of the ruling party at the Centre and vested interests of Governor’s administration.
“BJP knowing the fact that it has lost the ground in its core constituency is hell bent to procrastinate the Assembly polls while the Governor and his coterie seemed to have tasted the pleasure of power and have become reluctant to part ways from it. What a shame that for their petty gains the people have been kept deprived of their right to choose representatives and to have an elected govt in the State”, Mr Singh rued.
Describing the appointment of “special observers” by the EC as futile exercise’, Mr Singh divulged that despite the meeting of representatives of all the political parties with the full Election Commission earlier, who in one voice advocated to hold Parliamentary and Assembly polls at the earliest, the committee of three eminent members were constituted by the poll body to assess the ground situation before taking the decision to hold the Assembly elections in the State.
“Though Lok Sabha elections were announced to be conducted on time, the fate of Assembly elections was marred with suspense. In view of successful LS elections besides the observers report submitted to the ECI which had proposed to hold Assembly elections in June this year, the frail and insubstantial excuses given by the State officers to ECI for deferring the said polls sounded frivolous and defied all logic. How would Assembly elections affect Eid and Amarnth pilgrimage? How would the polls become hindrance for the tourist season in the State?”, he asked.
He however, termed bureaucracy in J&K as the biggest stumbling block in the way of Assembly Elections.
UNI