Sharad Yadav
The dissolution of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) assembly was a "murder of democracy", said veteran politician Sharad Yadav on Thursday.
"Democracy has been murdered in J&K by dissolving the assembly. I oppose and condemn the dissolution," said Yadav, reported news agency PTI.
"What is the meaning of an election when the people's mandate was to be butchered by dissolving the assembly? Similarly there is no meaning of the local bodies polls when the major political parties did not participate in it," he added.
He said the governor's action was evidently biased when an alliance of the major parties had staked claim to form the government.
Hours after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) staked claim to form a government with backing of the rival National Conference (NC) and the Congress, J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik abruptly dissolved the state assembly on Wednesday night.
Since June 19 after the BJP withdrew from the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government, the state assembly had been put in suspended animation.
Currently, Yadav is heading his political outfit Loktantri Janata Dal. He formed it after parting ways with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led janata Dal (United) in 2016.
