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It’s a fixed match: Beig

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 1/13/2014 10:44:59 PM

SRINAGAR, Jan 13: Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Monday accused that the ruling party has failed on all fronts of governance and that the creation of new administrative units in the state is nothing but another fraud being played on people of the state and a match that already has been fixed.
“The exercise on the face of it is only an attempt to put up a facade for ruling parties’ designs to use the creation of new units for political purposes. Having failed on all fronts of governance the ruling party is now desperately trying to subvert the system to secure some seats for some influential politicians at a huge price to administrative system,” said PDP senior leader Muzaffar Beig while addressing press conference here.
Beig stated further that for some time now, as elections draw near, the ruling parties seems to have gone into an overdrive on the subject. The cabinet subcommittee has made some ‘cosmetic’ appearances at some select places for so called interaction to elicit people's views. “It is beyond comprehension as to how common people or their representatives could offer their views without knowing the contents of the report or its recommendation.”
Beig maintained further that the exercise on the face of it is only an attempt to put up a facade for ruling parties’ designs to use the creation of new units for political purposes. “Having failed on all fronts of governance the ruling party is now desperately trying to subvert the system to secure some seats for some influential politicians at a huge price to administrative system.”
The former deputy chief minister stated that the ‘insincerity’ of the ruling parties in attempting to create new administrative units, at this stage, without putting in public domain the reports of experts and without discussing the same in the state legislature, is heightened by the facts that the statutory institutions like Panchayats have remained defunct because of the ‘callous and unforgivable failure’ of the government to hold election at the block and district level.
“Further, despite the assurance of the ruling parties given to the legislature through the Governor’s address in Budget session of 2010 the elections to local bodies would be hold by May, 2010, no step has been taken till today. The ruling parties desire to befool the electorate at this stage through creating some administrative units on paper only,” Beig said and added that the creation of new administrative units at present “is nothing than another fraud being played on the people of the state”.
Substantiating his claims, Beig said that CSC exercise is patently farcical as they are working to a deadline given by the chief minister for his obvious political interests. “The audience at these so called meetings is sponsored by the ruling party itself to elicit predetermined opinions. It is a fixed match. If the units had ultimately to be created through such charade what was the need for a committee and why did the ruling party wait for the election time to execute its plans.”
Reiterating its demand of making the report of the Mushtaq Ganai committee Beig stated that even the portion of recommendations made by the earlier Biloeria committee should be put in public domain. “PDP would want to make it clear that any lopsided, manipulative, injudicious or politically oriented creation of administrative units will not only take away the advantage that the ruling party desires to get out of this last hour poll gimmick, but will also create immense anger among the public who will feel deprived of the due rights.”