Yusuf Taragami, a Communist Party of India-Marxist, legislator from Jammu and Kashmir said that the pulling down of the Gulam Nabi Azad government is an unfortunate development.
Taragami said in a conversation with rediff.com from his residence in Srinagar.
Panther's party chief Bhim Singh had claimed that National Security Advisor M K Narayanan had threatened him to vote with the Azad government but Singh was bent upon bringing down the governmnent after the threat.
The NSA admitted that he had talked to some Panther's party MLA's claiming that he was trying to make them see reason.
"The fall of the Azad government has changed the scenario in the state. Earlier the new elections to the state assembly would have taken place in November and a new civil administration would have taken over. The people of Jammu and Kashmir got their government after thousands of people lost their lives," he said.
The Governor has summoned all-party meeting where the next course of action will be decided. The main topiv of discussion will be whether to have elections on time or go in for governor's rule for a period of two years.
"It is unfortunate that some people for their own vested interests brought down an elected government," Taragami said.
Meanwhile, 45 men and and 10 women, all Kashmiri Pandits, were detained on Sunday evening for destroying property at Saifuddin Soz's house in Delhi.
There were no women police who could accompany the women detained, to the toilets. I spent 13 hours in the Tuglak Road police station," Nancy Kaul told journalists.
" What was our fault? All that we were asking for is the revocation of the cabinet order which cancelled the allotment of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board," Kaul said.
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