Why Mehbooba Mufti Is Claiming 1980’s Era Is Back In Kashmir | India News

Lok Sabha Election 2024: Amid the polling for the sixth section of the Lok Sabha elections, People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti held a protest. Ex-CM Mufti is alleging that the police have detained her social gathering’s polling brokers and staff with none cause.

Mufti stated, “PDP workers are being locked up in police stations without any reason. DG, LG, all officials from top to bottom are involved in this. They have locked up PDP polling agents in police stations. You had said that there will be free and fair elections but you are doing all this. Complaints are being received from places where efforts are being made to tamper the machines (EVMs).”

Mehbooba Mufti is within the electoral fray for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat towards National Conference (NC) candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad and Zafar Iqbal Manhas of the Apni Party. On Friday, Mufti wrote to the Election Commission with a grievance claiming that her staff had been wrongfully detained on the eve of the elections

“Many of our PDP polling agents & workers are being detained just before voting. When the families went to the police stations they are being told that its being done at the behest of SSP Anantnag & DIG South Kashmir. We’ve written to @ECISVEEP. Hoping for their timely intervention,” she claimed. 

Earlier, the Election Commission had revised the date of polling within the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency from May 7 to May 25 after it acquired representations to reschedule the date of polling resulting from varied points about ‘logistics, communication and pure limitations of connectivity.’

In the primary normal elections in Jammu and Kashmir because the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the voting has already concluded on the seats of Jammu, Baramulla, Srinagar and Udhampur. This can be the primary election in Anantnag-Rajouri after the delimitation train in 2022, which noticed the area of Poonch and Rajouri being mixed into the constituency.

In the fifth section, the Baramulla parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a voter turnout of 55.79 per cent. As per the ECI, that is the best voter turnout recorded within the constituency within the final 8 Lok Sabha elections in 35 years. Prior to this, the Srinagar constituency additionally recorded its highest voter turnout since 199 with over 38 per cent.