[Marxistindia] Hold Assembly Elections in the State of Jammu & Kashmir

[news from the cpi(m)]

June 29, 2019

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Hold Assembly Elections in the State of Jammu & Kashmir

 

The Union Home Minister's intervention in Parliament while moving the
extension of President's Rule for another six months in Jammu & Kashmir was
provocative leading to further alienation of the people of the state.  This
is not healthy for India's unity and integrity.  Alienation only feeds
growth of terrorism, which the country is unitedly determined to defeat.

 

If the conditions were conducive for the holding of the parliamentary
elections in the state, there is no reason to believe that the same
conditions prohibit the holding of elections to the J&K Assembly.  All
political parties in the state have asked for immediate election to the
Assembly and opined that this is the best way to draw in the people of
Kashmir into the democratic process.

 

In his two day visit to the state, for the first time in India's history, a
Union Home Minister did not meet the political parties in the state.
Further, during the course of his parliamentary intervention, the Home
Minister asserted that, amongst all the states of India, it is only J&K that
has a special provision contained in Article 370 of our Constitution.  This
is a travesty of Constitutional provisions.  The Constitution provides
special provisions  for the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Nagaland, Assam,
Manipur, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana), Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh
and Goa [Articles 371, 371 (A) to (I)].  

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands that the Central government, on the
basis of the accepted recognition that the J&K  situation is not merely a
law and order problem, implement its own assurances that it had earlier
given to the people of J&K of (a) starting a process of political dialogue
with all stakeholders and (b) undertake confidence building measures.
These, along with early elections to J&K Assembly, will be the most
appropriate manner to remove the current deepening alienation among the
people of J&K.  

 

 

 

(Hari Singh Kang)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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