TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the government is willing to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir along with General Elections which are slated to be held by May. Jammu and Kashmir was last month placed under President’s rule, six months after the BJP pulled out of Mehbooba Mufti-led government and the state was put under Governor’s rule.
“If Election Commission wants (to hold elections in state along with general elections), our government will have no objection,” Singh said replying to a debate on proclamation of imposition of Central rule in the state. He said there would be no obstruction from the Centre for holding elections in the state.”We are willing to provide whatever security force Election Commission wants for holding elections there” he said. After 1996, this is the first time the Central rule has been imposed in the militancy-hit state.
Rejecting opposition criticism that BJP’s “unnatural” alliance with PDP had alleniated population, he reeled out statistics to drive home the development without appeasement agenda of his party.”There was no conspiracy not to allow any other party to form the government,” he said in response to opposition charge that the Governor did not allow National Congress, PDP and Congress to form an alternate government. Governor’s rule was imposed in June last year after the leaders of all political parties in the state stated that they were not in a position to form the government, he said.
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