National Conference (NC) Vice-President and MP Omar Abdullah on Friday spoke about the danger of boycotting elections. At an event, he said, “There’s danger in boycotting polls. If there’s a boycott, then what happened in parliamentary polls will happen in Assembly polls too.”

bdullah was probably referring to how the BJP managed to secure three of the six Lok Sabha seats in the state. While the three seats inthe Valley went to the NC, the saffron party bagged the two Jammu seats as alsothe sole seat in Ladakh.

Abdullah said that in Assembly elections, “there’ll be a BJPMLA from Tral from where Burhan Wani and Zakir Musa belonged. They (BJP) havetheir eye on some constituencies here.”

The leader has always maintained that boycotting electionsis not the solution. Earlier also, he had told a daily that “by boycottingelections, we play into the hands of the very people who are trying to demonisethe people of Kashmir”.

The regional parties in Kashmir, the NC and Mehbooba Mufti’sPDP, had boycotted the panchayat elections, almost serving a victory to the BJPon a platter. So it is not surprising they don’t want to repeat that mistake.Earlier, Abdullah had hit out at BJP’s Ram Madhav for questioning the regionalparties on their stance vis-a-vis Assembly elections.

Without naming Madhav, Abdullah had said, “You got thecontrol of a handful of towns and cities (in J&K) because NC and the PDPstayed away (and the Congress did such a poor job of putting up a fight). Doyou really think we will give you a walkover in the Assembly polls?” onTwitter.