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Peoples Conference will take part in the upcoming local body polls, says Sajad Lone
Srinagar: Sajad Gani Lone led Peoples Conference has decided to participate in the upcoming local body elections. Lone took to Twitter and announced his decision.
Peoples Conference will take part in the upcoming elections. But given the rules we unfortunately won’t have a common symbol.
— Sajad Lone (@sajadlone) September 21, 2018
Confirming his decision, Lone told CNS that his party will participate in the upcoming Panchayat and Local Bodies elections.Both the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party, the two biggest regional political outfits have decided to boycott the elections as they have asked the Government of India to clear its stand on the issue of Article 35-A.
Home Minister of India Rajnath Singh on Monday appealed political parties in Jammu and Kashmir to participate in the upcoming Panchayat and local body polls.
On Monday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) also decided not to participate in the polls keeping in view the prevailing situation in the valley.
State Secretary CPI(M) Ghulam Nabi Malik, in a statement said that despite majority of mainstream political parties in Jammu and Kashmir deciding not to participate in these polls shows the arrogance of the BJP-led Central Government.
The Joint Resistance Leaders (JRL) while reiterating their call of ULB, Panchayat polls said that it is a “political gimmick to hoodwink international community”.
Congress, however decided to take part in the polls to keep ‘communal forces away.’
The state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said that the regional political parties have boycotted the upcoming Municipal and Panchayat elections due to fear, and added that they have apprehensions that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National conference (NC) will field proxy candidates in the polls.
(With inputs from CNS)
