Eroding sanctity of democratic institutions is the only noticeable achievement of the four-year tenure of the present regime, he said while addressing a meeting of senior party leaders and office bearers of Jammu district yesterday.
He targeted the state government for delaying ULBs polls which were due in February 2010.
The elections of ULBs, including Jammu and Srinagar Municipal Corporations, were scheduled to be held in February 2010 but the government has been postponing these polls without any valid reason, Mufti said.
"I failed to understand why government is shying away from its duty to conduct these elections. Formation of ULBs are must to empower the people of urban areas," he said adding, in a democratic system it was necessary to make representative character of all democratic institutions to ensure peoples' participation in these institutions.
Taking a dig at coalition regime for not fulfilling its promises to conduct local bodies polls, Mufti pointed out that during the last three years this government has repeatedly declared to conduct these polls but these announcements remained only on papers.
"The way government is hesitating from these polls it substantiates our apprehensions that this regime is not interested in conducting local bodies elections," he said.
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The Centre has blocked grants worth crores for urban development because the state government has failed to constitute the elected local bodies, the PDP leader said.
Mufti said, "Due to prevailing system in the ULBs there is no accountability and transparency and this situation suits the ruling coalition so the government is creating hurdles in conducting ULBs elections."
"Priority of this regime is not to empower people by strengthening democratic institutions," he said.