Gupkar Alliance Leaders Accuse Government Of Helping BJP In J&Ok Native Frame Polls

Srinagar:

The neutrality of government within the district building council elections in Jammu and Kashmir has come beneath sharp grievance on Thursday from leaders of the Other folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), who alleged that the management was once serving to the BJP.

The accusations stemmed from a number of incidents overdue on Wednesday and on Thursday — together with the reported beating up of 3 newshounds in south Kashmir who had been masking the polls, detention of a Congress chief’s relative in Uri and a cordon-and-search operation by means of the Military in Shopian, allegedly to forestall other folks from vote casting.

The PAGD is an alliance of a number of mainstream political events, together with Nationwide Convention (NC), the PDP, Other folks’s Convention and the CPI(M), that are contesting the District Building Council (DDC) polls in combination to be able to stay the BJP and its allies out.

NC vice chairman and previous Leader Minister Omar Abdullah alleged that the keepers of the regulation had been more than pleased to turn out to be lawbreakers “if it serves their pastime of cosying as much as the BJP & it is offshoots in Kashmir”.

“All of the equipment of the management has taken upon itself the duty of serving to the BJP within the DDC polls,” Mr Abdullah tweeted.

NC spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar mentioned his party leaders had been being averted from campaigning for the DDC polls over the last few weeks within the identify of safety.

“Our public assembly scheduled for nowadays (Thursday) at Behibagh in Kulgam district was once to be addressed by means of party basic secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani nevertheless it was once now not approved within the identify of safety,” Mr Dar mentioned.

PDP president and previous Leader Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who was once averted from leaving her area at the earlier two days, alleged that militia had been getting used to rig the elections.

“Safety forces have cordoned Matribugh in Shopian and aren’t permitting other folks to return out to vote beneath the pretext of inputs about presence of militants,” Ms Mufti tweeted.

“In a brazen show of energy, militia are getting used to rig this election and favour a selected party,” she mentioned, tagging the Election Fee and the Indian Military.

Mehbooba Mufti additionally lashed out on the government in south Kashmir over the alleged thrashing of 3 newshounds by means of police whilst they had been masking the elections.

“3 newshounds thrashed by means of safety forces in South Kashmir nowadays after interviewing a PAGD candidate who wasn’t allowed to forged his vote,” she mentioned, including, “The whole thing and the rest that comes to pointing out in truth being criminalised in J&Ok.”

Other folks’s Convention president Sajad Lone prompt State Election Commissioner KK Sharma to analyze the case of alleged cash distribution by means of a relative of a candidate in Uri.

Consistent with experiences, a detailed relative of a Congress chief was once detained by means of police on Wednesday night time whilst he was once on his technique to a village in Uri.

“Please examine the case of cash distribution in URI. The record despatched by means of police to the DC (deputy commissioner) virtually exonerates the accused,” Mr Lone tweeted.

He mentioned it was once the ethical accountability KK Sharma to determine the details, including that the police must provide an explanation for why the accused was once puzzled and being let off now.

Previous, Sajad Lone had tweeted overdue on Wednesday evening in regards to the “makes an attempt to hush up a case involving distribution of cash in Parenpeela Uri DDC constituency”.

“The LG (Lieutenant Governor) has an ethical accountability to determine who all r (are) in the back of makes an attempt to hush up the case,” Mr Lone, who could also be a PAGD spokesperson, had mentioned.