Safety Being Used As Pretext To Hinder Democracy In J&Okay: Farooq Abdullah
No executive has the precise to vary the foundations of democracy, Farooq Abdullah mentioned (Document)
New Delhi:
The president of Folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), Farooq Abdullah, on Saturday alleged that safety used to be getting used as a pretext to hinder and customise democracy within the Union Territory.
In a two-page letter to J-Okay Election Commissioner Okay Okay Sharma, Mr Abdullah, who’s at this time a Lok Sabha member from Srinagar, mentioned offering safety to a make a choice few and actually interning the remaining is a gross interference in democracy.
“I’m taking the freedom of writing to you concerning the upcoming DDC elections. A odd and a novel characteristic has come to the fore. Applicants publish by way of the PAGD are instantly whisked away to ‘protected places’ within the title of safety and confined to these ”protected places”. They don’t seem to be allowed to canvass, they’re totally out of contact with the ones from whom they’re intended to hunt votes,” Mr Abdullah alleged within the letter.
He mentioned the events’ a part of the PAGD had been in energy up to now and feature had the chance to go and run the federal government and are conscious about the demanding situations posed within the realm of safety in a spot beset by way of violence.
“Those demanding situations aren’t new, however had been painfully persisting for the remaining 3 many years. However, the federal government had buildings in position which ensured safety for all contestants without reference to the ideology they espoused or the events they represented,” he mentioned.
The Lok Sabha MP mentioned the present situation within the realm of safety is “blatantly orientated” in opposition to offering safety to a make a choice few and confining others.
“This comes throughout extra as an try to intervene within the democratic procedure than any actual worry for the wellbeing of the contestants. Safety can not and must now not be used as a device or an excuse to intervene in democratic processes,” he mentioned.
“Governments come and move. No executive has the precise to vary the institutional foundations of democracy in J-Okay, nourished by way of the sacrifices of hundreds of political staff,” the letter learn.
He mentioned whilst safety is a problem and it’s for the federal government of the day to counter that problem in a way which is honest and clear, “offering safety to a make a choice few and actually interning the remaining is a gross interference in democracy”.
