Jammu, May 11 (KNS): Former minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and senior advocate Harsh Dev Singh has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking assembly elections in the Union Territory.
He has filed the petition on behalf of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) leader Manju Singh, Chairman Block Development Council, Ramnagar, Des Raj, and District Development Committee, Udhampur, member, Ashri Devi.
In a statement, Harsh Dev Singh said that J&K has been deprived of a democratic government for the last four years and elections are being delayed and denied and continue to be postponed for one reason or the other.
He said he has prayed for the revival of a people's government in the Union Territory in consonance with the spirit of the Constitution and successive rulings of the Supreme Court.
Singh said the court on several occasions has held that assembly elections must be held within six months in all those states and union territories where assemblies are pre-maturely dissolved.
Even in a recent judgment of the Supreme Court pertaining to the State of Maharashtra, the top court reiterated that there is statutory obligation to fill assembly seats within six months so as to ensure that people were not deprived of due representation, he claimed. (KNS)