Non-locals, security personnel being registered as voters in Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti

Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti asked the administration to “come clean on this”

Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday claimed that non-local labourers and security forces personnel were being enlisted as voters in north Kashmir's Baramulla.

"According to reports, verbal orders were passed at an administrative meeting in Baramulla yesterday by district Tehsildar to enrol non-local labourers, CISF, CRPF, BSF & army personnel as voters," Ms. Mufti said, in a tweet.

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She asked the administration to “come clean on this.”

Ms. Mufti's statement comes a day after her party took objection to registration of outsiders as voters during the all party meeting convened by the Chief Electoral Officer in Jammu on Monday.

"The ruling government at the Centre has started the process of taking away the peoples' rights and diluting public will here on August 5, 2019 and now they have added a new chapter to it by saying they will add non-local voters. They are trying hard to change the identity, democratic rights, and electoral demography of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, but it is not acceptable to the people of Jammu & Kashmir under any circumstances," the PDP said in the meeting.

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