Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said that soon elections will take place in the J&K UT as the central govt is assessing the various polling station here for the election process because after the abrogation the favourable time has come.
Addressing the press conference he said that there are no political worker presently who is under house arrest and there are 30,000 elected representatives which consists Panchs, Sarpanches DDC and urban local representatives and parliamentarians here who are elected by the people’s mandate.
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He further said the previous govts has provided jobs to the family members of those who are associated with terrorism but they have removed them following due process of law as the present govt doesn’t believe in buying the peace, because their policy from the beginning have always been zero tolerance towards terrorism and bargaining of peace.
Moreover he cited that AFSPA cannot be removed presently from here as per now, because the Army is still needed at the borders and the statehood will be granted only when the appropirate time will come and when the delimitation exercise will be completed.
Earlier there were monthly Hartals because of which schools, colleges and govt offices used to be badly affected but post-abrogation such strikes have become less in the valley, he said.
