Conditions were not favourable for Assembly polls: Rehman

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 27: Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Ex-MP and president, J&K State Samajwadi Party, while commenting on recently concluded State Assembly elections said that the conditions in the entire State were not coercive primarily because of unprecedented floods when lakhs of people had been rendered  shelter less and secondly due to the acute hostile weather conditions.
Therefore, we strongly feel that Election Commission of India failed to judge the situation to the aspirations of people of the State which is not in tune with spirit of true democracy, he said.
“The wide created by parties between the people of Kashmir valley and Jammu region through their propaganda based on religions and regions has caused great damage to our secularism, which will take decades together to bridge up”, Rehman said.
He further said that for the first time in the history of J&K State, there was open use of black money to influence the poor voters and Election Commission of India utterly failed to curb the menace.