The bureaucratic rule would always create a wedge between those at the helm and the common people as the unelected representatives have never come up to the expectations of the local populace, thus leaving them to lurch at large.
Although the claims are being made by the administration that it has ensured governance at doorsteps, the ground situation is always contrary as the files of grievances continue to pile up in different departments, given the absence of proper representatives.
In democratic nation, the elected representatives, who come from the society, always rake up the issues that confront the people at grassroots level as the representative is well knowledgeable about the ground situation and the difficulties of the locals.
In absence of the legislators, the bureaucrats, although claiming high and tall, couldn’t manage to meet the large number of delegations, who turn up to their offices with their genuine grievances.
Similar is the case with Jammu and Kashmir, where the popular government is missing since June 19, 2018 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended its bonhomie with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). J&K is under president’s rule at present and the erstwhile State was bifurcated into two Union Territories on August 05, 2019 when the special status was abrogated by the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Meanwhile, the popular government at this juncture is the need of the hour as the people deserve their representatives to bring some respite from the sufferings they are facing with regard to the day-to-day issues.
The elected representatives are easily accessible to the people, but it becomes difficult and tough for any common person to meet the bureaucrat given their busiest schedule. There are people who believe that their works are pending since the voice of locals—elected government — is missing on the ground. One fails to understand how long it would take to make an announcement with regard to the conduct of the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
There is a need to speed up the delimitation exercise being carried out by the Delimitation Commission headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Ranjana Prakash Desai and conduct the fresh polls in J&K so that the people would be able to get their elected representatives at an earliest.
