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BJP�s vote share falls by 25% in Jammu after recent LS polls: Rajni Patil

Jammu
January 12, 2021

Senior AICC leader and In charge J&K affairs of the party, Rajni Patil has said that 25% decline in the vote share of BJP in Jammu region in just over year of the last Lok Sabha elections, should be eye opener for the Saffron party which is patting its own back with the win in just five districts out of 20, in the hurriedly announced DDC elections in J&K.

Addressing a Press Conference after holding meeting with newly elected DDC members from the party here, Patil said that BJP made every attempt to polarize the election atmosphere for vested political interests but Congress would not compromise on its inclusive policies for the sake of political interests, asserting that it would identify its shortcomings to emerge stronger wherever it lost.

Flanked by PCC President, G A Mir, Vice Presidents Raman Bhalla and Mula Ram, she questioned the Government for deliberately not keeping the provisions of Anti-defection law and not declaring the roaster of reservation of DDC chairpersons, as per existing law, before the holding of DDC polls, thus keeping the doors of horse trading open, she said all over country where elections are held on party basis for Panchayat bodies, the Anti defection law is applied but here the Government has not inserted such provision while holding election to the DDCs.

Patil said that all provisions of 73rd and 74th Amendment were incorporated by the Congress during its coalition regime in Jammu and Kashmir. The reservation of 33 % women besides SC and ST and election of such number of women SC & ST is the result of Congress efforts, she added. The AICC leader further said the legislation for Finance Commission, Election Commission and Ombudsman for Panchayats was already made by Congress coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir but BJP delayed the implementation of these provisions.

Referring to the results of DDC elections, Patil said that the BJP lost 25 % vote share in just one year from last Lok Sabha elections which reflects the disenchantment of people with BJP, while BJP is wrongly claiming victory. Out of twenty districts, BJP got majority on five districts only which shows that it's policies are not acceptable to the majority of the people in Jammu and Kashmir and it can't come to power again in future.