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| Separatists to campaign for boycott | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 19: The Hurriyat Conference and other separatist outfits on Sunday said they will boycott the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir which they termed as a "futile exercise".
"Hurriyat has nothing to do with this meaningless exercise and would ask the people to stay away from it as well," Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the separatist amalgam's moderate faction, said after the Election Commission announced the seven-phased poll schedule for the border state.
The Hurriyat leader said rather than focusing on the real issue-- the settlement of Kashmir, the government was trying to give an impression that Kashmir was an "administrative" problem which could be fixed by holding elections.
"Instead of hitting at the root of the problem, they (Centre) are only hacking off the leaves. Elections have been held in the past and these will be held in future with no results... it is futile exercise unless and until Kashmir issue is resolved," the Mirwaiz said. |
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