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| Govt & separatists to measure muscles during polls | | | The ensuing Lok Sabha election and
the Assembly election to be held later
in the year are not going to be only a tussle among various political parties or among the candidates who are in the poll fray but also between the security forces and the militants. These elections in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be a tussle of nerves between the separatists, trying to enforce their poll boycott call, and the Government, that is keen to see that polling percentage remained heavy to silence those who claim that people in Kashmir have no faith in elections and want the Kashmir issue settled through a plebiscite. In fact separatists had started urging people to keep off the poll process even months before the poll schedule for the Lok Sabha election was fixed and announced. These separatists have started campaigning for the boycott of the Assembly election when there are more than seven months left for the election and the Election Commission is yet to fix any schedule for it.
Not only this agencies across the border have renewed their activities for pushing groups of militants into Jammu and Kashmir for escalating the level of violence which was needed for facilitating separatists to ensure that their poll boycott call evoked good response. And the latest reports do indicate regrouping of activists belonging to Jash-e-Mohammad, Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-i- Toiba. It is in this connection that troops,guarding the LOC and the IB,in Jammu and Kashmir have been asked to mount their vigil against possible attempts being made by agencies across the border for pushing groups of activists belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad,Lashkar-i-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen into the state.Intelligence agencies have received specific inputs on the pak plan of carving out fresh launch pads for Jash and Hizbul activists who were to be pushed into Jammu and Kashmir for triggering violence during the electioneering for the ensuing Lok Sabha poll and during the Assembly elections that is to be held later in the current year. In the light of these specific inputs, troops deployed on the border,have been asked to initiate firm measures for preventing militants from sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. In this context troops have been told to monitor the movement of militants who have been brought on the launch pads across the Keran sector in Kupwara district.
Reports said that Jash activists have infiltrated into south Kashmir in recent weeks and it is because of this development that a number of militants,belonging to Jash,were killed in Pulwama, Tral and Shopian. According to these reports,Jash launch pad commander,Mufti Asgar and Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Imtiaz Alam were preparing militants in camps across Keran sector so that they were ready to cross into Kashmir.These reports said that the basic purpose of triggering fresh infiltration plan was to create added scare among people so that they remained indoors on the days of polling.Handlers of militants across the border believe that very poor polling percentage could once again bring the Kashmir issue in the limelight.Once it happened India will not be telling the world community that people in the Kashmir valley have cast their lot with New Delhi which was evident from heavy polling during the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections. And leaders belonging to all those political parties,that are contesting the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections, need to avoid kicking up trouble by inciting people on one pretext or the other so that security agencies were able to concentrate on checking ingress bids and on launching counter insurgency operations. Besides better border management peace within Jammu and Kashmir can ensure incident free poll process. |
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