J&K L-G says panchayat, urban local bodies polls will be held soon

Referring to erstwhile sarpanches, helium said, “I privation to accidental surely 1 happening that panchayat elections should person been held here, but determination was a law difficulty’’.

He added that determination was nary preservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) successful the section bodies. “Due to it, the Act (J&K Panchayati Raj Act) had to beryllium amended, which was done by the Parliament,’’ helium said. This cleared the mode for holding panchayat elections, but past came the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections, helium said.

The L-G besides reiterated his committedness to support the rights of the displaced families from Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), West Pakistan Refugees, tribals, Valmikis and different deprived sections who benefited from the abrogation of Article 370.

“Empowering J&K’s farmers is my ngo for which we person taken strategical steps to accelerate translation successful agriculture and allied sectors. We volition guarantee that the younker successful the agrarian areas get adjacent opportunities to shine,” Sinha said.

The State Election Commission has already initiated the process for holding panchayat polls and published draught electoral rolls connected November 11. It has besides said that voters tin petition additions, deletions and corrections until December 9, for which peculiar camps volition beryllium organised connected Saturdays and Sundays. All claims and objections volition beryllium settled by December 23 and last electoral rolls published connected January 6, 2025, sources said. The five-year word of each 4,291 colony panchayats ended connected January 9 this year.

-With PTI inputs