By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has termed the imposition of President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh as blatant misuse of power by the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre and alleged it to be an attempt to subvert Indian democracy.
President Rule is imposed in Arunachal Pradesh on January 26 after President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Union Cabinet’s recommendation to impose President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh. A Congress-led government was in power in the state, but following defections, when 21 out of 47 legislators had rebelled against the chief minister, the governor had advanced the session of the Assembly.
The Congress had gone to court and obtained a stay on the proceedings but without waiting for Supreme Court’s ruling NDA government proposed President to impose its rule in Arunachal Pradesh.
Reacting to this development, Adv. Sharfuddin Ahmad, National vice president of SDPI in a statement reminded Modi Government that its pro-active role in imposing Central rule in Arunachal Pradesh was against the spirit of its pre-poll promise of maintaining cooperative federalism during its rule.
Ahmed also said that the Central government has not only acted in haste but with malice in taking this undemocratic step. “It has usurped the rights of the people of Arunachal Pradesh to be governed by the elected leaders and thrust a Hindu right wing RSS governor,” he added.
Alleging that NDA Govt. has no respect for the Constitution, he said that the ‘power hungry’ government is indulged in rampant corrupt, communal, criminal, anti-dalit and anti-minority activities.
Terming Supreme Court as guardian of constitution, he also urged it to take stringent action against this ‘murder of democracy’ by imposition of President Rule when the matter is seized of with it.
“Surely this govt. assumes to be above the law and so was keen on setting up National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) as well to keep judges under its control, but failed”, said the party leader.
Ahmed further said that Arunachal Pradesh is not the right stage for the theatre of political absurdity and this political instability will bode well for the state considering the fact that it is a border state and two third of Arunachal Pradesh is under the control of China.
“Instability, whether political or (related to) law and order in nature is not a good thing for a border state. China closely observes events occurring in India, which is an open book, but India hardly gets to know what’s happening in China,” he suggested.
In addition to this, he further alleged that in India post of governor has become a mockery and need serious amendments in the laws empowering the Central Government with respect to the appointment of the Governors in the States.
“Firstly, a Governor should not belong to a political party but be a retired High Court Judge or defence personnel of captain or Colonel rank officers,” he opined.