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On Tuesday, the Election Commission announced that polls for the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary seat were being deferred, days after some political parties demanded the same because of inclement weather, which has blocked road connectivity between different parts of the constituency.
Four days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to Kashmiris to vote for any party except the Congress, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the BJP has defended its decision not to field any candidate in the Valley for the Lok Sabha elections, saying that it is supporting “patriotic’’ parties there.
WITH THE CONGRESS having fielded the controversial Choudhary Lal Singh, who had publicly supported the accused in the 2018 gang rape and murder of a minor Bakerwal girl in Kathua, from Udhampur-Doda, its allies have been forced to go back on their criticism of him.
With the Congress officially extending its support to the National Conference (NC) for the three parliamentary seats in the Valley, the Mehbooba Mufti-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have been cornered in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the Lok Sabha polls, even as the three parties remain constituents of the Opposition INDIA alliance.
Last week, Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone said that the biggest confidence building measure towards Kashmiris would be to register an FIR against National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders and the bureaucrats for their role in the alleged rigging of the 1987 Assembly polls.
After 15 years, the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir is headed for a keen contest, with prominent leaders in the fray from the BJP and Congress.
To take on the ruling BJP as well as the Opposition INDIA bloc in Jammu and Kashmir in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, three local parties – Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), Altaf Bukhari’s J&K Apni Party and the Sajjad Lone-led J&K Peoples Conference – are set to forge an alliance and form a third front in the Union Territory.
THE PEOPLE’S Democratic Party (PDP) is hoping for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s intervention to end the standoff with the National Conference (NC) over seat-sharing in Kashmir, which is threatening to unravel the INDIA bloc in the Union territory.