National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Saturday blamed the Election Commission and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the delay in holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Fielding media questions after addressing a public rally in Rajouri’s Nowshera, Omar said that being on a sticky wicket, BJP doesn’t want to hold elections in the UT.
“Leave aside 50 plus seats, the BJP won’t even win ten seats if assembly elections are held today in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
He added, “whenever situation deteriorated in Jammu and Kashmir in the past, we had leaders like HD Devegowda, IK Gujral, Manmohan Singh and AB Vajpayee, who tried to restore democracy but for the first time we have such a government at the Centre, which doesn’t want to hold elections here.”
Omar said that such a treatment to J&K also raised questions on the Election Commission, whose chief election commissioner, a few months ago, had talked about political vacuum in J&K and that it needed to be filled up.He slammed the EC for dragging its feet when it comes to assembly polls in the UT.
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