Jammu Kashmir PDP in addition to the previous Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti have slammed the BJP authorities and the Election Fee for deferring the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha election. PDP spokesperson Mohit Bhan, reacting to the Election Fee's choice to postpone the election within the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, said, “The sheer nervousness of Delhi, after witnessing overwhelming help for Mehbooba Mufti, has pressured them to vary the election date and facilitate the proxy events of BJP to interact in murky enterprise inside the electoral course of.”
He claimed to have seen a video during which Pahari neighborhood voters have been threatened to not vote for Mufti, and in the event that they did, they might face motion akin to that in 1947. Political leaders mentioned that the reminiscences of 1987 are recent when the favored mandate was silenced, and Jammu and Kashmir, together with the nation, was plunged right into a darkish period of demise and destruction, weakening the democratic construction and paving the way in which for a chronic insecure border, leading to a risky environment.
“Denying procedural house for folks to train their franchise after gerrymandering the whole constituency reveals how Delhi is conscious of individuals's temper and their failed narrative of Naya Kashmir,” mentioned Bhan.
It’s value mentioning right here that the Election Fee of India, on Tuesday, revised the polling date for the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency from Might 7 to Might 25. An Election Fee official mentioned that after contemplating the report of the Union Territory Administration as properly. as analyzing the prevailing floor state of affairs within the mentioned constituency, it has determined to revise the date of polling within the Anantnag-Rajouri seat to Might 25.
A number of political events of Jammu and Kashmir, together with BJP, PDP, Apni Get together, and Ghulam Nabi Azad's DPAP social gathering, had cited the climate and requested the Election Fee to postpone voting within the space till the climate improves and Mughal Street opens.
Earlier than the change of the election date, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, who can also be a candidate from the realm, had alleged that each one this was being accomplished to purchase and threaten voters.
Together with Mufti, Nationwide Convention has additionally opposed the change within the date of elections. NC Vice President Omar Abdullah additionally mentioned that this has been accomplished to assist some proxy events of BJP and we’re opposing this. Omar had mentioned that now we have all of the choices open, we are going to knock the doorways of the court docket.
In the meantime, PDP has additionally demanded motion towards the discharge of the video containing hate speech and motion towards the folks making statements within the video. This grievance was despatched to Returning Officer 3-Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency (Deputy Commissioner Anantnag).
“After the hate video went viral and the PDP's letter together with the assertion and video turned public, the BJP took quick motion and expelled the person seen within the video from the social gathering for six years and initiated an inquiry towards him,” the letter issued. by BJP President Ravinder Raina reads.
