GANGTOK, 14 Aug: The Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee has appealed to the Governor to intervene on the issue of the Sikkim Prevention and Control of Disturbance of Public Order Bill introduced in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly on 11 August in a press release issued by the acting president, Kunga Nima Lepcha.
The Sikkim-unit of the Congress has claimed that the introduction of the Bill has been so timed as to “take advantage” of the absence of the “most powerful opposition leader” NB Bhandari, who is serving a one-month prison sentence.
‘The recent developments cornering the SDF Government seems to have prompted the Chamling Government to come up with such draconian and conspiratorial Bill the sole objective of which is to curtail all oppositions against the SDF Government for its misdeeds and anti–people activities’, the release argues.
Stating that the ‘beauty of democracy is in the expression of dissent’; the release says that by passing numerous Bills and enactment of laws whereby the democratic rights and privileges of the citizens in Sikkim is being curtailed, the ruling party is destroying the very essence of democracy in the state.
The Sikkim-unit of the Congress has claimed that the introduction of the Bill has been so timed as to “take advantage” of the absence of the “most powerful opposition leader” NB Bhandari, who is serving a one-month prison sentence.
‘The recent developments cornering the SDF Government seems to have prompted the Chamling Government to come up with such draconian and conspiratorial Bill the sole objective of which is to curtail all oppositions against the SDF Government for its misdeeds and anti–people activities’, the release argues.
Stating that the ‘beauty of democracy is in the expression of dissent’; the release says that by passing numerous Bills and enactment of laws whereby the democratic rights and privileges of the citizens in Sikkim is being curtailed, the ruling party is destroying the very essence of democracy in the state.
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