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| Allow free and fair Lok Sabha poll: PDP tells ruling alliance | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2-The PDP leadership has conveyed to the central Government that steps be taken in hand to prevent the ruling coalition of the National Conference and the Congress from resorting to unfair practices during the ensuing Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a senior party leader, the PDP leadership has fears that the Congress and the National Conference may try to rig the election in order to deny the opposition its right to win some seats. He said that the party leadership has conveyed to Delhi that if the ruling coalition tried to rig the poll process violence was likely to get escalated in the state, particularly in the Kashmir valley. He said that in 1987 when the Congress and the National Conference had forged an alliance the two resorted to malpractices which gave rise to militancy. He said that the purpose of rigging the 1987 Assembly poll was to prevent the Muslim United Front from winning power. The PDP leader said that the Front could not have won more than 10 to 12 seats had not the Congress-NC ruling alliance rigged the poll.
The PDP leader said that the supremo of Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin, was the product of the poll rigging. Salahuddin was contesting against the NC candidate Ghulam Mohi-ud- din Shah, from Amirakadal seat. The then Government persuaded the official machinery to alter the poll results and Mohi ud-din Shah was declared a winner. This had infuriated Salahuddin (M.Y.Shah) who crossed over to Pakistan for arms training. And for the last 23 years he has been heading the Jehad Council and guiding the militant movement in Jammu and Kashmir.
The PDP leaders has warned Delhi that if the ruling alliance resorted to irregularities in the forthcoming election the security scenario in the state, which had shown signs of improvement for the last five years, may assume alarming dimensions for which the Congress and the National Conference will be held responsible. The party leadership wants democratic institutions to be strengthened and the poll process getting completed in such a way as people would feel satisfied that it has been free and fair election, the PDP leader said.
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