Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the Centre nominating five members to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly after holding elections is a “blatant subversion of democratic principles”.
She was responding to media reports which said that the Ministry of Home Affairs has informed the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court that the Lieutenant Governor can nominate five MLAs to the Legislative Assembly without the aid and advice of the elected government.
“GOI’s 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,” Mufti said in a post on X.
“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. Representation must be earned through the people’s vote not granted by central decree,” the former chief minister said.
“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,” she added.
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