JAMMU, Aug 11: Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti , NC chief Spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq have responded on report that LG can nominate 5 MLAs in J&K as per MHA reply in Court.
News Report of National Media House said that Lieutenant-Governor can nominate five members to the J&K Legislative Assembly without the elected government’s aid and advice: MHA and said the office of the LG was not an extension of the government.
Tanvir Sadiq posted “When J&K has an elected govt with an absolute majority, bypassing it to let the LG handpick members is not governance, it’s contempt for the people’s mandate. It strikes at the heart of parliamentary democracy, ignores the constitutional spirit of ‘aid & advice’, and sets a dangerous precedent where unelected appointees can rewrite the people’s verdict.”
Mehbooba Mufti posted “GOIs decision to nominate 5 MLAs in J&K after holding elections is a blatant subversion of democratic principles. Nowhere else in the country does the Centre handpick legislators to override the public mandate.
In India’s only Muslim-majority region, long marred by conflict, this move feels less like governance and more like control. Following the illegal bifurcation of the state, skewed delimitation and discriminatory seat reservations this nomination is yet another body blow to the idea of democracy in J&K.Representation must be earned through the people’s vote not granted by central decree.
This cannot be allowed to become the norm. Hope OmarAbdullah government rises to the occasion by challenging this undemocratic precedent because silence now would be complicity later.
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