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| Record polling proves Omar, separatists wrong | | What have we achieved by staying away from elections for past 20-yrs, ask voters | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 2: Jammu and Kashmir witnessing more than 70 percent polling in the first two phases has silenced the people who were of the opinion that assembly elections should be delayed in wake of the floods which submerged Kashmir on September 7 this year. The high voting percentage has also shattered the people who have been preaching separatism and election boycott for the past 22-years.
Kashmir watchers believe that high voter turnout indicates that people were fed up of NC-Cong regime and have participated in the polls to express their resentment against the government led by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Reports suggest that NC is once again all set to face the drubbing like it witnessed in the parliamentary elections as all the three seats in the Valley went to opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Pertinently, after the floods ravaged the Valley NC left no stone unturned to ensure that assembly elections get postponed. The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approached Centre with a plea that polls should be delayed as flood hit people won't cast their votes. He is on record saying that many areas would witness zero percent polling. However, the huge participation of the people in first two phases have proved him wrong.
The ongoing polls seem to be on way to change the entire discourse in JK's history as people have firmly started believing that ballot is more powerful than any other means.
Maximum of the people who exercised their franchise in north Kashmir's Kupwara district and south Kashmir's Kulgam district were of the opinion that if they don't vote it would pave the way for a wrong person to become their representative. "We want to elect such a person who can really become our voice and who will remain accessible even after winning the elections," said a group of voters at Devsar in Kulgam district.
They claimed that by staying indoors they give a chance to such people who don't deserve to represent them. "We have had enough of boycott. What have achieved by staying away from the poll process during all these years. People who are preaching boycott should come here and stay with us rather than giving sermons and calling us traitors," the voters told Early Times.
There was no confusion among the masses in any of the poll bound areas in Kashmir. Where their elected representatives had worked for them, people hailed them but wherever their MLAs had ditched them and had not paid any heed towards addressing their genuine concerns people were out to teach them a lesson.
"Today NC and Congress are facing the ire of the people as they failed to deliver and left the masses in lurch. Most leaders of both these parties during the past six years forgot that people are the fountainhead of power and once in six years these politicians have to face the masses," the voters said. However, they were quick to add, "We voting for a different party today does not mean that they will take us for granted. If they also fail to live upto to our expectations we will not hesitate in voting against them in the next elections."
The huge participation of the people in the first two phases of 2014 assembly elections in JK has made one thing amply clear that masses have realized that they cannot allow such people to reach the assembly who are not worth, and they have sent a clear message to the separatists that boycott days are over and people cannot be blackmailed by a few so called leaders. |
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