Jammu, July 7 -- All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), a prominent registered body working for strengthening grassroots level democracy in J&K on Monday strongly condemned the silence adopted by political parties, the lieutenant governor and the legislators over the headless Jammu and Kashmir election commission.

AJKPC president Anil Sharma criticised the elected representatives of all political parties, saying that their silence shows they are not serious about panchayati raj institutions. "If they really cared about grassroots democracy and the rights of people at the village level, at least one leader would have raised this issue with the government, the LG, or even in the media," he said during a press conference here....