Jammu, April 21 -- Early Times Report
Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) chairman Harshdev Singh while alleging unprecedented use of black money and ill gotten wealth during the ongoing parliamentary elections, said that democracy seemed to have lost its meaning and relevance in the country.
With several crores being incurred on individual elections especially by the big parties by hiring aircrafts, choppers, chartered planes, engaging film stars and actors for campaigns , purchasing TV channels and media for party publicity and using money power to influence the voters had reduced democracy to a farce.
Rather than being a govt "of the people, by the people and for the people", the present democracy had become a govt "of m...