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| Pre-poll campaign has begun in Kashmir | | | Though without a schedule for the
poll that the National Conference has scared of the PDP which is evident from the fact that the vice president of the NC has again tried to tarnish the name of the BJP by saying that the PDP could join hands with the BJP. This a pre-poll gimmick and Omar does not want the PDP to return to power. That is why he is playing with the sentiments of people of Kashmir who could be voters of the PDP. The former Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah has cautioned people against voting for PDP saying the party can again align with the rightwing BJP Omar addressed a meeting of NC workers at restive Kulgam. In his speech, Omar mostly targeted the former PDP regime saying all the good work done by his party during their rule to bring normalcy in the state was undone by the PDP-BJP regime.
"Since last four and a half years, the army crackdowns which had ended were reintroduced in the valley. The curfews, which had become a thing of past, were re-imposed again and the single storeyed bunkers, which we had got removed, were replaced by double storeyed ones during PDP's last stint," he said. Omar said the number of army camps in Valley increased during PDP's rule. He National Conference Government t provided internet facility to the people of the Valley while PDP imposed a curfew on it too. People were even prevented from offering Eid namaz during her rule and there was a lockdown of Jamia Masjid too for several Fridays," he said.
Omar said as the elections have approached, Mehbooba has now realized that she committed a mistake in 2016 by her "toffee and milk". "If she had apologized for all these remarks when she was CM of this state, it will have mattered then but now it is only a poll gimmick. Whatever statement Omar has made in Kulgam is an indication that the mainstream political leaders have begun pre-poll compaign by lashing out against each other. And the National Conference is silent against the Congress thinking that under the grand alliance with the Congress the NC could regain power. And the PDP also is in a defensive mood trying to garner support of its vote bank. Whenever the next Assembly elections are held it may be a straight fight between the PDP and the National Conference with the Congress playing a true game. This is the scenario in the Kashmir valley and as far as the region of Jammu is concerned it could be a tussle among the Congress, the BJP, the Panthers Party and the National Conference. While the valley could spring a triangular contest the region of Jammu may witness multi-party contest. |
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