AJKPC demands clear timeline for panchayat, block development council polls
JAMMU, Jun 2 (PTI): Asserting that the delay in holding panchayat polls has left a “democratic vacuum” at the village level, the All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Monday called for immediate action to restore grassroots democracy in the Union Territory (UT).
It said the failure to conduct elections to panchayati raj institutions (PRI) within one year of the dissolution of elected bodies has resulted in blockage of funds which are vital for the execution of key development projects across rural areas.
“Elections are not a formality, they are a necessity. Rural governance is paralysed without them and the common man suffers,” AJKPC president Anil Sharma told reporters here.
