The BJP has accused the Samajwadi party led government of subverting the constitution process by trying to conduct the panchayat elections in an arbitrary manner. TheBJP alleged that the SP having lost the peoples support is desperate to capture the three tier panchayat institutions through questionable and unconstitutional means.
The state BJP president lK Bajpai said in a statement here on Wednesday that the SP government has postponed the election of the gram pradhan for six moths without assigning any valid or legally tenable reason. He said the BJP will challenge the move of the government in competent court.
government has no explanation to offer for holding the elections of the member of district panchayat six months ahead of schedule. The term of the member district panchayat is ending in March 2016. The government must explain as to who will be the member of the district panchyayat —one to be elected in October or the person whose term is ending in March next year. The BJP leader alleged that this will create anarchy across the state.
The BJP state president charged the SP government of cheating the people by disturbing the rotation of reservation for the post of village pradhan. The government has already deferred the reservation for gram pradhan till further orders- thus postponing the deferring the election of the Pradhan. He said the government has cited no reason for deferring the election of the village Pradhan even as their term is ending in November.
Bajpai alleged that both the SP and BSP both were against the elected governments at the village level. He said the BSP government had abolished the post of deputy pradhan and deputy block pramukh and the SP government has retained that. He said the then Kalyan Singh led BJP government in1998 had implemented the 73rd constitution amendment in letter and spirit and transferred the control of the 32 departments to the village pradhan and also 70 percent of the budget for the rural works was directed credited in the accounts of the village panchayats.