Omar, Mir file papers from Baramulla
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 2: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah today filed his nomination papers for the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency before Baramulla Deputy Commissioner Minga Sherpa, who is the Returning Officer of the constituency.
Talking to reporters after filing his nomination papers, Abdullah said his party’s stand has always been very clear against the decision on Article 370 and his party is seeking votes against the decision of Aug 2019.
“We are seeking votes from the people against those decisions. It is not that we are alone. Many of our friends are also fighting this fight. God willing, the number of such friends will increase slowly,” he said. Click here to watch video
The former Chief Minister said that the ongoing Parliamentary elections were important for the people of Jammu and Kashmir given it is the first big election here after August 5, 2019.
Abdullah said he filed the nomination papers for a Lok Sabha election after 20 years. He was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha from 2004-2009.
“It is also after 10 years that I have filed nomination papers for any election. This tells you about the situation of democracy in J&K. The last assembly elections took place in 2014 and now since 10 years, there has been no Assembly elections,” he added.
“The NC and INDIA bloc who are fighting the poll together is hopeful that the alliance will win all the five seats in J&K and the Ladakh seat as well,” he said.
Abdullah said the Election Commission should take action against the BJP for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s comment that cow slaughter will increase if Congress comes to power.
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“I do not know why they have a free run from the Election Commission to use religion in the polls. Others are told that they cannot use religion in the elections under the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for either seeking votes or pitting people against each other,” he said.
Abdullah while referring to PM allegations at an election rally that if the Congress came to power, it would redistribute the wealth of people to Muslims said: “If that is really so, then these statements used to spread hatred, especially against 14 per cent Muslim population, are very unfortunate.”
He said that the BJP’s star campaigners not only use religion, but attempts are also made to divide the people, be it in the name of ‘mangalsutra’ or land or cow slaughter. “Unfortunately, attempts are being made to spread hatred in this country and that too by the party whose leaders, including its PM, never get tired of saying that he represents all 140 crore Indians,” he said.
Meanwhile, former Rajya Sabha member and PDP candidate Mohammad Fayaz Mir today also filed nomination papers for the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Rafiq Rather, from Jammu & Kashmir People’s Democratic Party, Farooq Ahmad Bhat from National Youth Party J&K Unit and Irfan Ahmad Chack from Bharat Jodo Party also filed their nomination papers for Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency.
Similarly, Khursheed Ahmad Shah from Rashtriya Jankranti Party, Mehraj Uddin Najar, Independent Candidate; Basharat Hussain Najar, Independent Candidate and Abdul Hamid Gojree from Aam Janta Party Democratic submitted their nomination papers for Baramulla.
A total of 19 candidates have so far filed their nomination papers to contest from Baramulla.
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