United Jihad Council (UJC) on Tuesday appealed people to stay away from the upcoming parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir, saying “these elections are futile exercise for the people who witness bloodbath every day.”
“Conscious people will not come out to vote to respect thesacrifices,” UJC spokesman Syed Sadaqat Hussain quoted its chief SyedSalah-ud-din as having said in a statement.
The statement said that the UJC chief while addressing ahigh level meeting of United Jihad Council said, “The participation of peoplein elections is used at diplomatic level by India; therefore thoseparticipating in these polls are betraying the sacrifices of people.”
He also expressed grief over the demise of senior Jama’at-e-Islami leader, Ghulam Nabi Fareedabadi, saying “the deceased has lost his two sons in the Kashmir struggle in 90’s.”