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Elections our right but won’t beg for it: Omar
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said after the abrogation of Article 370, the security situation had not improved in the Union Territory.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said election is the right of the people but Kashmiris will not beg for polls to be held in Jammu and Kashmir.
“If elections will not be held, we are not going to beg for elections. Kashmirs are not beggars. Elections are our right but we will not beg for the elections,” he said, alleging that elections were not being held to harass the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“They know if elections are held, the people’s government will get elected and they (the new government) will try to heal the wounds of the people,”he said.
Abdullah said after the abrogation of Article 370, the security situation had not improved in the Union Territory. “People were told that Article 370 was the reason for guns in Kashmir, and its scrapping will bring an end to it, but that is not the case. The attacks in Rajouri, situation in Kashmir, and increased deployment of security forces show that the situation is not under control.”
While BJP leaders, including home minister Amit Shah, said elections in Jammu and Kashmir, have said that elections will be held on completion of the delimitation exercise, the dates are yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, the BJP reiterated that guns came to the Valley after the NC allegedly rigged the 1987 polls. J&K’s BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur said, “The gun was born after NC resorted to rigging in 1987, which produced dreaded terrorists such as Muhammad Yousuf alias Syed Salahudin and Yasin Malik.”
“Post the scrapping of Article 370, militancy-related incidents are at an all-time low and the shadow of gun also reduced to a large extent, and official figures of militancy-related incidents and militants killed prove it,” he said, adding that no strikes, stone pelting incidents or law and order breakdown had been reported in the Valley in the last three years after the revocation of Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
