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J-K BJP accuses state govt of subverting democracy

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Press Trust of India Jammu

"State coalition partners are subverting the democratic institutions by not holding block and district-level Panchayat elections or releasing remuneration to the elected panchayat members in Jammu and Kashmir", state BJP Chief Shamsher Singh Manhas told reporters here today.

BJP passed a political resolution at its two-day-long working committee meeting here today highlighting the debacle of Congress party in the recent state Assembly elections in the country, the state government's discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh, minorities, refugees, corruption and loot of the public exchequer among other issues.

"Through false statements both Government partners-- Congress and NC are trying to hoodwink elected representatives who are the real stakeholders in the development process", Singh said.

 

He said that corruption in state cannot be estimated. "Issuing of various licences, allotment of government contracts have been made source of enrichment by the ruling politicians. Huge tracks of Government land, including forest, evacuee have been illegally grabbed by the ministers and their supporting politicians", he said.

Manhas said that in different sessions, threadbare discussions were held on a number of issues confronting the state under the NC-Congress coalition under Omar Abdullah.

The working committee expressed grave concern over the continuous discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh, minorities, refugees of all denominations and those who believe in total integration of the state with the rest of country, he said.

  

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First Published: Apr 30 2012 | 5:15 PM IST

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