Accusing the ruling BJP at the Centre of using the power of massive mandate as a "license to crush" the opposition, the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) alleged on Friday that the saffron party believed in "one nation, one party" politics.
The party said the decision of holding block development council (BDC) elections in the state while keeping top opposition leaders under preventive detention was "full of offence and shock".
"The BJP has demonstrated as to how a massive mandate could become a license for crushing the opposition and extinguishing the democratic chatter altogether," JKNPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh alleged.
He said, "It has amply revealed its (BJP's) penchant for destroying the entire opposition with only one party to stay and rule the political turf."
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