Dhami government is evading elections: Suryakant Dhasmana
Dhami government is evading elections: Suryakant Dhasmana
Dehradun, Nov 28
Suryakant Dhasmana, Senior Vice President of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee, has levelled serious accusations against Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) j government headed by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami charging it of avoiding and evading student union, cooperative, municipal, and now panchayat elections within the state.
Ina statement he said that the government is afraid of losing every election, which is why it is continuously delaying democratic processes. Dhasmana stated that student union elections were deliberately not conducted in the state’s largest college, DAV College, and several other colleges. The government feared that their supported student organizations would lose the elections. Similarly, cooperative elections have also been delayed for a long time under various pretexts.
He further pointed out that for the past year, elections in all municipal corporations, municipal councils, and town panchayats in the state are due and have not been conducted. Despite repeated affidavits submitted in the High Court, the government on the contrary has avoided conducting municipal elections. As a result, the public in the state has been left without representatives, and their problems have been neglected.
Dhasmana also criticized the fact that the tenure of panchayats has ended, but neither the state government nor the state election commission has taken any concrete steps to conduct panchayat elections but instead administrators have been appointed in panchayats, ignoring democratic processes.
Targeting the state election commission, he said that the commission is neither capable of conducting municipal elections nor panchayat elections. In such a situation, it would be better to lock up the election commission’s office. Dhasmana alleged that the BJP state government has lost faith in democracy and does not want local bodies and panchayats to be elected, which is a clear indication of weakening the foundation of democracy.
