Diplomat Correspondent
Srinagar: DD, Former Chief Minister, and PDP Chief, Mehbooba Mufti today said that the Government of India’s decision to nominate five MLAs in Jammu and Kashmir after holding elections is a blatant subversion of democratic principles.
“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,” says Mehbooba while reacting on her X account.
The PDP Chief said that 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.
The 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,” Mehbooba Mufti added.DD