In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) Chairman Harsh Dev Singh has said that his party would file a contempt petition against the authorities in the Indian Supreme Court for defying its orders about “timely conduct of assembly elec-tions” in J&K.
According to Kashmir Media Service, pointing towards the judgments of the Indian apex court mandating “timely conduct of assembly elections”, Harsh accused the Modi government and Election Commission of India of deliberately delaying the formation of an elected government in J&K. “Government of India and its Election Commis-sion are defying the orders of the apex court for vested interests. The Supreme Court in its judgment of September 2018 had ruled that the process of conducting assembly elections in states where pre-mature dissolution of lower House took place, needed to be completed within a period of six months from the date of dissolution of the said House.”
“The J&K assembly having been dissolved on November 21, 2018, the elections to it ought to have been completed before May 21, 2019 in terms of the ruling of the SC which however was not done for political and personal expediencies of helmsman at New Delhi and J&K. —KMS
