{"id":9296,"date":"2017-04-15T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T03:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2017-04-15T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T03:14:54","slug":"had-warned-eci-against-holding-byelections-mehbooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9296","title":{"rendered":"Had warned ECI against holding byelections: Mehbooba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Jammu:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said the state government had warned the Election Commission of India that the situation in the Valley was not conducive to holding byelections to the Srinagar and Anantnag parliamentary seats.The CM said she had warned the ECI of possible violence and low turnout in the elections. \u201cWe had informed the ECI that situation in Kashmir was not conducive to holding byelections as wounds of the deaths occurred last were still fresh and people were not mentally prepared to participate in the electioneering process. We also informed the ECI that we shouldn\u2019t give a chance to the other side (separatists) to cash in on these elections,\u201d Mehbooba said while speaking during an official function at the Zorawar Singh auditorium here today.\u201cI had warned the ECI of violence and low voter turnout in these elections, and both things happened,\u201d the Chief Minister said, adding that \u201cthe ECI still decided to hold elections as they know better than us\u201d.In the violence during the Srinagar parliamentary byelection, eight protesters were killed and several others injured. The ECI deferred the byelection to the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, scheduled for April 12, on considering the ground situation and the PDP candidate Tassaduq Mufti\u2019 request, which was endorsed by the coalition government.Commenting on the situation in the Kashmir valley, the Chief Minister said: \u201cFor four months we tried our best to bring the situation under control but now it has again deteriorated, which will have a negative impact on the developmental activities all across the state. All of our focus will go back to bringing the situation under control and we will not be able to concentrate on development.\u201dShe once again thanked the people of Jammu for maintaining peace in the region and not falling prey to the provocations and volatile situation in Kashmir.Meanwhile, talking to mediapersons after the function, the Chief Minister termed Farooq Abdullah as a confused person. \u201cEarlier, he glorified stone-throwers by terming them nationalists and now he is blaming the government for paying stone-throwers,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NC chief is \u2018confused<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I feel Farooq Abdullah\u00a0is confused. Earlier, he glorified stone-throwers by terming them nationalists and now he is blaming the government for paying stone-throwers. \u2014Mehbooba Mufti, Chief Minister<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tribune News Service<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu:\u00a0Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said the state government had warned the Election Commission of India that the situation in the Valley was not conducive to holding byelections to the Srinagar and Anantnag parliamentary seats.The CM said she had warned the ECI of possible violence and low turnout in the elections. \u201cWe had informed the [&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-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","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=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}