Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday said it is not in favour of delaying assembly elections in the state, but hastened to add that some political parties want polls to be conducted immediately, which is not possible.
“We are not in favour of deferring or delaying the assembly elections. Had assembly polls been held together with Parliamentary elections, it will have favoured our party,” BJP senior leader Ashok Koul told Kashmir News Service (KNS).
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“However, some parties demand holding of assembly elections immediately (which) is not possible because Gujjar and Bakerwal, which are about 30 lakh voters are in migration phase these days.
“We can’t deprive them of their voting rights. So once they return from grazing their stock from the hills, assembly polls can be held,” Koul said.
Over the prevailing security situation in the Valley, Koul said that out of 10 districts of Kashmir “only 3 districts are witnessing volatile situation.”
“In rest of the districts of Kashmir, situation has improved and the centre government will deal with the situation to bring peace in these three districts,” he said.
On the surrender of his security on protest, the BJP leader said that he surrendered his security to protest the “wrong information provided by police to Governor.”
“Some officials in Police had given wrong information to Governor about the security of slain BJP member Gul Mir of Anantnag. I wrote to the Governor to clarify him about the security of late Mir. Governor has assured that security will be provided to all those political activists after proper verification by police,” he said.
Asked that opposition parties accuse BJP of polarising voters and threatening minorities, he said that Congress is “polarising voters in the country and did recently in Jammu and Kashmir Parliamentary polls”.
The BJP leader lashed out at the Congress for not taking any action against its leader Asgar Ali Karbalaie in Kargil who contested elections against the Congress official candidate.
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