Unidentified gunmen attacked a panchayat member’s house with automatic rifles at Gaffabal in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday night. The attack came days after a terrorist group had asked village local bodies’ members in the area to resign and triggered mass resignations of panches and sarpanches in south Kashmir, where Kulgam is located. Police said Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat was home along with his family at the time of the attack, but all of them escaped unhurt.
The government had recently empowered panchayats with more powers foreffective governance at the grassroots level. Reports said the Jasih-e-Muhammad’s purported threat along with a similar warning from the Lashkar-e-Taiba earlier has so far forced about 20 panches and sarpanches to resign. Officials have denied any such resignations. But local newspapers carried notices of at least seven panchayat members, including women, from Rajpora, announcing their resignations on Friday.
The government had recently empowered panchayats with more powers foreffective governance at the grassroots level. Reports said the Jasih-e-Muhammad’s purported threat along with a similar warning from the Lashkar-e-Taiba earlier has so far forced about 20 panches and sarpanches to resign. Officials have denied any such resignations. But local newspapers carried notices of at least seven panchayat members, including women, from Rajpora, announcing their resignations on Friday.
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