Political Events Demand LS, Meeting Elections Concurrently In JK – Kashmir Reader

ECI Folds Consultations On Ballot Preparedness

Srinagar: Political events right here on Tuesday urged the Election Fee to carry meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir concurrently with the Lok Sabha polls because the panel began two-day consultations with stakeholders to assessment preparedness for the upcoming normal elections.
The BJP too has expressed its readiness for simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and the Jammu and Kashmir meeting.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and different officers of the ballot panel, who arrived right here on Monday for a three-day go to to Jammu and Kashmir, held interactions with delegations from the Nationwide Convention (NC), PDP, BJP, CPI(M), Congress, and the Aam Admi Occasion, officers stated right here.
Nationwide Convention chief Nasir Aslam Wani, who led his occasion’s delegation, stated they impressed upon the Election Fee the necessity for holding meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir along with the Lok Sabha polls.
“We instructed the fee that it has been 10 years that the folks of Jammu and Kashmir have been disadvantaged of their democratic rights. So, the meeting elections be held together with Lok Sabha polls. The fee gave us a affected person listening to,” Wani stated.
He stated conducting two elections individually in a yr would disturb Jammu and Kashmir’s economic system.
“The tourism sector right here may be very vibrant and persons are anticipating an enormous rush of vacationers. So, if two elections are held in a yr (individually), then the financial exercise might be disrupted. Additionally, it’s the prime minister’s dream to have one nation, one election. So why not begin that from Jammu and Kashmir,” the Nationwide Convention chief instructed reporters.
Wani stated the occasion delegation additionally instructed the Election Fee that folks right here have apprehensions that the elections wouldn’t be truthful. The EC ought to guarantee a stage taking part in area within the elections, he stated.
“The fee heard us patiently however, the choice is theirs,” he added.
PDP chief Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura stated his occasion additionally batted for holding meeting and Lok Sabha elections concurrently. “It’s now as much as the Election Fee to determine on this,” he instructed reporters after the assembly.
BJP chief R S Pathania his occasion is prepared for simultaneous polls. He alleged that the NC, PDP and Congress had been “frauds who’ve unfold smokescreen within the identify of half-truths to befool the folks of Jammu and Kashmir”.
The BJP chief demanded that polling cubicles be arrange at locations outdoors the Union territory the place the members of the Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood have been dwelling to facilitate their voting.
After the assembly with political events, the ballot panel will maintain an in depth assessment of the election preparedness with District Election Officers and superintendents of police, officers stated.
Within the night, the Election Fee officers will work together with Jammu and Kashmir chief electoral officer P Ok Pole and nodal officers of the state police. The election fee officers will maintain comparable interactions in Jammu on Wednesday.
There was a rising demand from political quarters in Jammu and Kashmir that the Election Fee ought to maintain meeting polls right here concurrently with the Lok Sabha polls or instantly after the overall elections.
Former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad have raised this demand previously two weeks.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on Saturday held a gathering with the civil and police administration to sensitise them in regards to the measures to be taken for the graceful conduct of the Lok Sabha polls within the Union Territory.

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