Include Implementation of 73rd, 74th Amendments in CMP: AJKPC to BJP-PDP

AJKPC Asks BJP-PDP to Include Implementation of 73^rd, 74^th Amendment in  CMP

Jammu, 09/FEB/2015: Amidst reports of possible BJP-PDP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir for government formation, All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference, AJKPC, the frontline organization of elected Panches and Sarpanches have urged the leadership of both the political parties to include the implementation of 73^rd and 74^th amendment of Indian Constitution in their Common Minimum Program so that grass root level democratic institutions like Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies be strengthened in the state , without which there cannot be any development.  

Anil Sharma, the president of the organization while sharing this demand of AJKPC with the media informed that their organization is hopeful that the new dispensation (BJP-PDP Coalition) as and when takes over the regime would do justice with the 33,000 Panchayat members and give them their due share. He said the former government of NC-Congress could not fulfill its promise of empowering Panchayati Raj Institutions, though they successfully conducted the 1^st tier Panchayat Elections but they neither gave them the autonomy as envisaged in the Panchayati Raj Act of the state nor conducted the Block and District Level Election of Block and District Committees. AJKPC Leader  demanded the implementation of 73^rd and 74^th amendments of the Indian Constitution  in toto.

 Bashir Malik, another senior leader of the AJKPC and Provincial President, Kashmir unit also endorsed the demand and asked the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party and Bhartiya Janta Party to not forget their promise of decentralization of power to the people which is possible only through the institutions of local self governance like Panchayats and Municipalities. We assure that Panchayats would cooperate with the new regime  in executing their  developmental and people welfare schemes without any political motives.