{"id":2672,"date":"2014-05-16T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2014-05-16T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:35:21","slug":"elections-since-1996-in-jk-were-free-and-fair-former-raw-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Elections since 1996 in J&amp;K were free and fair: Former RAW Chief \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Lok Sabha verdict will have serious impact on Assembly results\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u20181987\u2014election was an unfortunate episode\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>A S Dulat, former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief\u00a0<span>on Friday<\/span>\u00a0said that the Lok Sabha elections results in Jammu and Kashmir will have a serious impact on Legislative Assembly results in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to KNS, Dulat, who has also served as then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s adviser on Kashmir, said that he has been monitoring elections in Jammu and Kashmir since 1996 and all the elections in Jammu and Kashmir since 1996 were conducted in a free and fair atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>When reminded of \u2018infamous rigging\u2019 in elections of 1987, Dulat said: \u201cYes that was an unfortunate episode but nevertheless there is a total change in overall political dynamics when it comes to Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d He said the Lok Sabha elections will\u00a0 shake up National Conference which has miserably failed to retain its Parliamentary constituencies in Kashmir. \u201cSurely the Lok Sabha verdict in J&amp;K should shake up National Conference,\u201d he said. He told KNS that BJP will improve its tally in Legislative Assembly polls in Jammu region and similarly the PDP will get more numbers in the Assembly in winter this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dulat who has been a member of national security advisory board also advised Sajad Lone to gear and work hard before Legislative Assembly polls scheduled to be held in October-November 2014. \u201cThe Lok Sabha verdict should shake up Sajad as well. No doubt he worked very hard and he has got an impressive voter share but should think of alliance with any bigger political party. Sooner the better,\u201d Dulat advised. (KNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Lok Sabha verdict will have serious impact on Assembly results\u2019 \u20181987\u2014election was an unfortunate episode\u2019 Srinagar:\u00a0A S Dulat, former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief\u00a0on Friday\u00a0said that the Lok Sabha elections results in Jammu and Kashmir will have a serious impact on Legislative Assembly results in winter. Talking to KNS, Dulat, who has also served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}