fromuttarakhand voice
uttarakhandvoice@rediffmail.com Dear All,
As you know the next assembly election will be held in 2012.But this election will strangulte the objective of creation of hill state.And effort of those who lost their lives in the uttarakhand movement is going to be useless.
After a long battle people find their dream hill state and it is now going to lose the status of hill state as no of legislators from hill is going to be reduced in future.
On 15 May, 2002 a bill was passed in parliament, and kill the objective of the creation of the new hill state (uttarakhand).But most painful thing is our respectd M.Ps from uttarakhand did not speak even a single word against this bill on 7 May in lok Sabha, 15 may 2002 in Rajya Saba ,make a way to strangulate the voice of hill in the assembly of uttarakhand.
So how these puppet M.Ps,who did not save the interest of hill in the Parliament, will face the common people. As of now most of the people are not aware about this arrangement.But once they know it will be hard for these M.Ps to face them.
If we go by the current census the average population growth in the hill is mere 6% and in other part of the state is more than 25% it shows that in next decade their will be huge difference in population.
Reason behind the poor population growth is the high literacy rate in the hill region.People want to have small family. So inspite of giving reward to the people ,they are being punished by reducing their representation in the state assembly
If tne next assembly election comes into existence with only on basis of population hill will lose 6 legislator(2-Pauri G,1-Uttarkashi,1-Bageshwar,1-Pithoragarh,1-Almora) and if this parameter is accepted hill will again lose its legislator in future it seems by the end of the census in 2031 hill will lose more than dozen legislator and the voice of the hill will be out of the mainstream of democracy.
In this way the concept of separate hill state will be finished.
J&K is also a hill state, having same circumstances but due to their active MPs in Parliament and legislators in the state assembly who took appropriate steps and got it excluded from this arrangement till 2026.
So this is a time to wake up .
Bhei Bhando we have to come in a single plateform.We have to think on certain points.
1- Can we do something to get it excluded from this arrangement like J& K.
2-Can we file a petition in Supreme court.
3-Can we send mass letter to president of india against this deed of Election Commission.
4-Can we bring our generalist and advocate along with us to make a path to come out from this situation.
5-If we could not do anything, by the end of 2031 uttarakhand will take a shape of mini Uttar Pradesh and our next generation will not fogive us.
6-If we face it collectively,we can come out from this situation.
Regards
Pankaj Purohit