As an Election Commission of India team has deferred its visit to J&K, former chief minister and NC vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party are both trying to get elections in the state postponed.
A poll panel team was scheduled to visit the state and after meeting officials, would have taken a decision regarding the holding of assembly elections in the state. The National Conference and Congress have been urging the government to hold both assembly and parliament elections in the state simultaneously.
Abdullah, speaking to reporters in south Kashmir, said that they have come to know that visit of the election commission team has been postponed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting all three regions of the state. “National Conference has always maintained that the elections shouldn’t be postponed. There are Supreme Court directions that elections should be held within six months. This is a test for Modi sahib. Has the situation deteriorated to such a level that elections couldn’t be held on time? It is Modi sahib who has to decide it,’’ he said.
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