Election Commission should tell people why no elections in Jammu and Kashmir: Omar Abdullah
The Hindu
National Conference Leader Omar Abdullah on said on June 6 that the Election Commission should muster courage to tell people why Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir are not being held.
Srinagar National Conference (NC) Leader Omar Abdullah on said on June 6 that the Election Commission should muster courage to tell people why Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir are not being held.
"Is there a pressure on them [EC] not to hold elections? Let the Election Commission show some courage and say that they are under pressure. There is something fishy," Mr. Abdullah told reporters outside the party Headquarters in Srinagar.
Mr. Abdullah, a former Chief Minister, said the Election Commission should be asked when it plans to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The media seems to be more concerned about the elections than us. Election is our right but we are not going down on our knees for it. If they want to snatch the right of people of Jammu and Kashmir, if they get some pleasure out of it, let them do it. We also have some self-respect and dignity,” he said.
He said the Chief Election Commissioner, during his last visit to the Union Territory, admitted that there was a vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir.
"If CEC saw a vacuum here at that time, why is it not being filled? What is the compulsion?” he asked.
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.