‘Of Course, We Will Fight Assembly Elections’
that his party and president are the chief targets of the ongoing “onslaught”
Under Dad’s Shadow: Dr Mehbooba Baig poses with the portrait of his father, Mirza Afzal Baig. KL Image: Yawar Hussain
KASHMIR LIFE (KL):
Is PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) still relevant to Jammu and Kashmir?
MEHBOOB BAIG (MB): Definitely. PDP is relevant to Jammu and Kashmir and more particularly after what happened post-August 5, 2019. It is the only party that gives expression to the voices of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
KL:
But from 28 assembly berths in 2014, you have come down to just 27 DDC berths out of 280. How are you relevant?
“This is the “naya/new J&K” after Aug 2019. We get locked up in our homes with no explanation. It s bad enough they ve locked my father (a sitting MP) & me in our home, they ve locked my sister & her kids in their home as well,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Saturday rued the unfair mode of selection of DDC Chairman Budgam, terming the entire exercise a clear violation of law and rules.
Interacting with a delegation of party’s eight DDC Members from District Budgam who had called on him at his residence in Srinagar, Party Vice President rued the active involvement of the district Administration which he said issued blatant threats about the power to detain people for two years.
“Flawing all norms the administration is playing partisan to curry favor with particular DDC members; the mode and manner in which the election of DDC Chairman was conducted is a point in case. The manner in which the normal course of election of DDC Chairman at Budgam was fiddled is an indictment of the aversion the ruling dispensation nurtures for due democratic values. What is more alarming is the manner in which the J&K administration benefits a particular candidate. Th
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Srinagar:The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday wrote a letter to State Election Commissioner (SEC) KK Sharma and expressed regret over an incident of “booth capturing and subsequent bogus voting” in the recently held DDC polls in Garoora area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
In a letter addressed to SEC KK Sharma, Dr Farooq demanded repolling in Garoora Bandipora A which went to polls on Dec 13.
“A very sad state of affairs has been brought to my notice. At a number of places, real voters and supporters of PAGD candidates were disallowed to vote. Apart from wanton capturing of polling booths at Garoora, Bandipora A on 13 Dec, incidents of unwarranted interference were reported from a number of areas which went to polls on 16 Dec. In Chitragam Shopian, voters were forcefully stopped from casting their votes,” writes Dr Farooq.