Government will provide all the resources to the Election Commission for peaceful conduct of local body elections: Prime Minister AJK

MUZAFFARABAD (PID) Ahigh level meeting in connection with the holding of local body elections was held here on Thursday. The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi was in the chair.
The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Azad Kashmir Shakeel Qadir Khan, Senior Member Board of Revenue Ehsan Khalid Kayani, Principal Secretary Zafar Mahmood Khan, Commissioner Muzaffarabad Division Masood-ur-Rehman, Commissioner Poonch Division Ansar Yaqub, Commissioner Mirpur Division Chaudhry Muhammad Raqib and others. The meeting reviewed the administrative matters regarding the holding of local body elections in the state. .
Addressing the meeting, the Prime Minister said that the administration of Azad Kashmir had extended full cooperation with the Election Commission in the general elections of 2021 and urged them to fully cooperate with the Election Commission regarding the holding of local body elections in Azad Kashmir. He said the government will provide all the resources to the Election Commission for the peaceful conduct of local body elections in the state.
He said that for the last 31 years the common man has been kept away from power and now the power will be transferred to the gross root level through holding local body elections. In this regard he said the landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has also come.
He said that holding peaceful conduct of the local bodies election is a bigger challenge than that of general elections and the entire administrative responsibility for the elections will fall on the district administration. The Prime Minister said in the past only promises were made but no practical steps were taken due to which the common man remained out of power. He urged the administration to utilize their full administrative capabilities for holding peaceful conduct of the local body elections.