{"id":301,"date":"2014-03-18T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/separatists-likely-to-devise-poll-boycott-strategy\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:42:00","slug":"separatists-likely-to-devise-poll-boycott-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Separatists likely to devise poll boycott strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Deliberations on to evolve consensus&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">over a common strategy<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/syed-ali-geelani-mirwaiz-umer-farooq-shabir-ahmad-shah.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/syed-ali-geelani-mirwaiz-umer-farooq-shabir-ahmad-shah.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Srinagar:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> With the political mainstream in Jammu and Kashmir&nbsp;already in poll mode, the separatists have started in house deliberations to evolve a consensus over a common strategy to make their poll boycott call \u2018a success\u2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Reports maintained that a section of senior pro-freedom leaders are in continuous contact with Mirwaiz led Huriyat and a common plan to go for a mass contact programme highlighting the \u2018demerits\u2019 of participation in polls is likely to be chalked out very soon.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Talking to KNS, Chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq stated that in principle the pro-freedom camp here is united vis-\u00e0-vis polls and that elections are rejected in letter and spirit at large by Kashmir\u2019s separatist leadership. \u201cThe consensus is already there \u2013we reject elections and urge people to stay away from the same.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">However, Mirwaiz observed that till now he has not been approached by any pro-freedom group over the issue and Huriyat in near future will devise the strategy to launch poll boycott campaign in valley.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">As the Huriyat Conference led by senior separatist Syed Ali Geelani has already urged people to go for a complete poll boycott, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Mohammad Yasin Malik in his recently held rallies has stated that vote means \u2018betrayal\u2019 with the sacrifices rendered by the people during the ongoing resistance movement.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Huriyat Conference (JK) senior leader Shabir Ahmad Shah told KNS that there must be the coordination between the various separatist groups over the issue of poll boycott and that his amalgam from the very first day has been asking people to stay away from the polling booths.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sources informed KNS that the senior resistance leader and MeA patron Mohammad Azam Inqilabi has been holding series of deliberations with various fro-freedom factions over the issue of poll boycott and has also urged various factions to stand united over election boycott strategy. In his recent statement, Inqilabi has also supported the boycott call of Hizb Supremo Syed Sallah-ud-din and has urged people to reject the election fray at large.&nbsp;(KNS)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;\">                 <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deliberations on to evolve consensus&nbsp;over a common strategy Srinagar: With the political mainstream in Jammu and Kashmir&nbsp;already in poll mode, the separatists have started in house deliberations to evolve a consensus over a common strategy to make their poll boycott call \u2018a success\u2019. Reports maintained that a section of senior pro-freedom leaders are in continuous [&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-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}