BJP is
Pro- Panchayats Party: Ashok Kaul
Party
Committed to Panchayat’s Empowerment: BJP Leader
Jammu,11/Oct/2015: Bhartiya Janta Party stands affirmative on
the issue of empowering Panchayati Raj Institutions in Jammu and Kashmir State
and the Party always believe in decentralization of power, this is being stated
by Ashok Kaul, Senior leader of the Party who is also Organizational Secretary
of BJP, J & K Unit.
While Interacting
with a delegation of elected Panchayat members led by Anil Sharma , President
of All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference and also active member of the
party. The prominent members of the AJKPC also included its State Secretary
Alam Choudhary, , Gautam Singh Jamwal, Provincial President (J), AJKPC, Raj
Kumar Provincial Vice President, Jammu and others.
The Panchyatat
members also submitted a memorandum to Ashok Kaul requesting of holding Block and district level elections as
mandated under J & K Panchayati Raj Act 1989, besides their demand of
implementation of 73rd amendment of Indian Constitution here in the
state, the memorandum of AJKPC demand also included setting up elected Block Development Council and elected
District Development and Planning Board in each District.
The memorandum
further reads “ We acknowledge the fact,
the present union government led by honourable Prime Minister Sh. Narinder Modi
is also in favour of decentralization of power and special focus on
strengthening the PRIs. In the vision
document released by BJP during state assembly election -2014 also the party
had promised for greater autonomy to the Panchayats ” . The delegation members
also urged the senior BJP Leader to further convey the demands of 33,000
elected Panchayat members regarding empowering Panchayati Raj in the state at
appropriate level in the state and also before the union government, informed
Anil Sharma, the AJKPC president.
He also informed that
the Organizational Secretary gave patient hearing to the delegation and assured
them that all genuine concerns of the Panchayat members including their
security issue shall also be raised at appropriate level.
