JAMMU: All Jammu Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Friday declared that it would mobilize the people and launch a state-wide agitation against the state government’s move to weaken the Panchayati Raj system and crush democracy at the grass-root level in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The ‘Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2016’, which was passed by the Legislative Assembly on 30th June, is a black law which will snatch the democratic rights from the people to elect their representatives at the grass-root level directly. The state government has cleared its intentions of weakening the Panchayati Raj System in J&K,” Anil Sharma, State President AJKPC said.
“We are left with no option but start a vigorous state-wide agitation against the state government which has tried to dismantle the well-established Panchayati Raj system which has been strengthened in J&K only after the sacrifices of security personnel, rural people and Panchayat members,” Sharma said.
“We appeal to the government to shun its ill-intention and not impose any black law on the people as it will prove suicidal for it and create anarchy in the state,” he warned.