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ET Report
Srinagar: Even as the National Conference patron, Dr Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah have been under detention since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, the party is likely to contest the upcoming Assembly elections in the Union Territory.
Source said the party has snubbed its senior leader, Dr Mustafa Kamaal who is also the brother of Dr Farooq Abdullah, for having told media that the party would not be part Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir till the restoration of the special status.
On December 10, Kamaal, in an interview to media said that the NC will not be part of Assembly elections.
“They have demolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. We can’t take part in any political process (Assembly elections) in this system,” Kamaal had said in reaction to a question on NC’s stand on the Assembly elections likely to be held in the summer of 2020.
The NC is understood to have conveyed to Kamaal that he was nobody to speak on behalf of the party to decide on contesting the upcoming elections.
It is pertinent to mention that around a year ago, the party had boycotted the local body polls for Panchayats and Municipal bodies but subsequently contested the Parliament polls with Dr Abdullah as one of the main candidates.
“Boycotting the local body polls was an eyewash because the Abdullahs were not to contest the Panchayat polls themselves. But in Assembly polls there’s every possibility that the Abdullahs will certainly contest and thus they have negated the statement as made by him (Kamaal),” said a NC leader on the condition of anonymity.
He said had the NC made up its mind for not contesting the upcoming Assembly polls, the party would have upheld Kamaal’s viewpoint “or atleast would have not contested it.” “But by strategically rejecting his statement, the NC has conveyed that it was not averse to contest the Assembly polls,” said a political analyst close to the NC.
Despite repeated attempts the NC leaders were no available for comments.
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