{"id":51929,"date":"2022-08-17T22:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/allowing-non-locals-to-vote-in-assembly-polls-will-be-disastrous-disempower-locals-mainstream-parties\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T22:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:14:27","slug":"allowing-non-locals-to-vote-in-assembly-polls-will-be-disastrous-disempower-locals-mainstream-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51929","title":{"rendered":"Allowing Non-Locals To Vote In Assembly Polls Will Be \u2018Disastrous\u2019, Disempower Locals: Mainstream Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Srinagar, Aug 17:<\/em><\/strong> National Conference, PDP, JKPC, CPI (M) and Congress on Wednesday reacted sharply to the election commission statement that \u201cnon-local residing in Jammu and Kashmir can vote\u2019 in assembly elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Chief Minister in PDP-BJP combine Mehbooba Mufti said that decision to allow non-locals to vote was aimed \u201cobviously to influence election results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoI\u2019s decision to defer polls in J&K preceded by egregious gerrymandering tilting the balance in BJPs favour & now allowing non locals to vote is obviously to influence election results. Real aim is to continue ruling J&K with an iron fist to disempower locals\u201d she said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PDP spokesperson in a tweet said \u201cthis whole thing about people from outside J&K being allowed to vote here is an extension of the \u2018tactical rigging process\u201d that started with the unconstitutional and illegal delimitation process in J&K.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c The sole aim of GoI is the complete disempowerment of the people of J&K,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allowing non-locals to vote in Assembly Elections will be as disastrous as 1987 rigging, J&K Peoples Conference leader Sajad Lone said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reacting to the statement of Chief Electoral Officer of J&K that every citizen of the country staying in J&K can have voting rights in Assembly elections, Sajad said that such a step would be a replay of 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking to microblogging platform Twitter, Sajad said, \u201cThis is dangerous. I don\u2019t know what they want to achieve. This is much more than a mischief. Democracy is a relic especially in the context of Kashmir. Please remember 1987. We are yet to come out of that. Don\u2019t replay 1987. It will be as disastrous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Conference vice president and former chief minister of J&K Omar Abdullah tweeted: \u201cIs the BJP so insecure about support from genuine voters of J&K that it needs to import temporary voters to win seats? None of these things will help the BJP when the people of J&K are given a chance to exercise their franchise,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said that \u201cwhat CEO has said amounts to disenfranchising the people of Jammu and Kashmir further.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c The delimitation process through Re-organisation Act was an attempt to change the electoral demography of the region,\u201d he said in a statement to GNS, adding, \u201cIn the absence of any representative government in J&K, the union government has been exercising undiluted control in the region through a bureaucratic structure since June 2018. Today\u2019s statement of CEO is a brazen assault on the legitimate aspirations of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former J&K Pradesh Congress Committee President Ghulam Ahmad Mir said that allowing non-locals to vote in Assembly Elections would be disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement issued here, Mir termed the move politically motivated, disappointing and very unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGOI should respect the emotions of JK People rather than disempowering them by allowing non-locals to vote, which is unacceptable and intolerable to the people of J&K,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI would suggest GOI to desist from doing such undemocratic experiments and focus on the development of J&K and empowerment of people.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, Aug 17: National Conference, PDP, JKPC, CPI (M) and Congress on Wednesday reacted sharply to the election commission statement that \u201cnon-local residing in Jammu and Kashmir can vote\u2019 in assembly elections. Former Chief Minister in PDP-BJP combine Mehbooba Mufti said that decision to allow non-locals to vote was aimed \u201cobviously to influence election results.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51929","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=51929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}