SRINAGAR: Any choice to incorporate “non-locals” in electoral rolls in Jammu and Kashmir is unacceptable and can be contested by all means together with in court docket, Nation Convention president Farooq Abdullah stated on Monday after a gathering of 9 events over the problem.
Abdullah, who had referred to as the assembly, stated they have been united towards the transfer to increase the voting proper to “outsiders” as it will rob Jammu and Kashmir of its identification. The state’s identification is about to finish.
The Dogra, Kashmiri Pahari or Gujjar or Sikh, who reside right here, will lose their identification. The meeting will probably be within the fingers of the outsiders… All of us oppose it and usually are not prepared to just accept it, he informed reporters. The assembly was attended by the NC, Congress, PDP, Awami Nationwide Convention (ANC), Shiv Sena, CPI, CPI(M), JDU and the Akali Dal Mann.
Nonetheless, Sajad Lone-led Individuals’s Convention and Altaf Bukhar’s Apni Occasion stayed away. The BJP, in the meantime, accused the NC, PDP and different events of spreading deceptive propaganda to poison the minds of the folks over the problem of inclusion of non-local voters within the revised electoral rolls within the Union Territory.
Addressing a press convention in Jammu, the get together’s J-Okay unit chief Ravinder Raina stated there isn’t a query of locals or non-locals because the Structure offers all residents the proper to vote within the nation after attaining the age of 18.
He was talking after chairing a gathering of senior get together leaders at get together headquarters right here to chalk out a counter-strategy towards the assembly referred to as by Abdullah in Srinagar.
Abdullah had convened the assembly after the NC and different events objected to the remarks of the Union Territory’s Chief Electoral Officer Hirdesh Kumar that there will probably be round 25 lakh further voters and anybody who resides ordinarily can avail the chance to get enlisted as a voter in J&Okay beneath the provisions of The Illustration of the Individuals Act.
The federal government on Saturday final issued a clarification, saying the experiences of a possible addition of over 25 lakh voters after the abstract revision of electoral rolls is a “misrepresentation of info by vested pursuits” and the rise in numbers will probably be of voters who’ve attained the age of 18 years as of October 1, 2022, or earlier.
Dissatisfied with the clarification, the NC and different events claimed the administration has not addressed their major concern on whether or not ”outsiders” ordinarily residing in J-Okay will probably be allowed to enroll as voters.
CPI(M) chief M Y Tarigami stated the events have been clear that what the CEO stated within the press convention and the clarification of the Info Division is unacceptable to all of us. We’ll discover the probabilities of searching for justice from the best court docket of the nation, he stated.
