NC’s fight in Anantnag is not against BJP since Mehbooba’s party no longer a friend: Omar
Omar was ostensibly referring to Mehbooba Mufti who has filed her nomination for the seat as PDP candidate against NC’s Gujjar spiritual leader Mian Altaf.
Omar was ostensibly referring to Mehbooba Mufti who has filed her nomination for the seat as PDP candidate against NC’s Gujjar spiritual leader Mian Altaf.
Mehbooba was taking part in a roadshow in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam area during her election campaign.
She said the PDP became the “biggest target” after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and its leaders were either “lured or blackmailed” to break away from it
The NC had unilaterally announced that it would field its candidates on all the three seats and fielded Mian Altaf from Anantnag. The NC had left two seats in Jammu for the Congress as part of the INDIA bloc's seat-sharing agreement.
Mehbooba was responding to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement wherein he said that the dynastic parties that did not let J&K develop should be wiped out in the Lok Sabha elections.
The NC swept all the three seats of the Kashmir valley where alleged tinkering of the Articles 370 and 35A by the BJP had become a major electoral issue.
She also congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Lok Sabha election result trends clearly indicated that the BJP-led NDA was on its way to form a government with a clear majority.
Earlier, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq announced that the conglomerate led by him was "ready to support all Indo-Pak efforts aimed at ending hostility and seeking a peaceful solution" to the Kashmir issue
Of the 18 candidates in the fray in Anantnag, prominent are Hasnain Masoodi (NC), Sofi Yousuf (BJP), Ghulam Ahmad Mir (Congress) and Mehbooba Mufti (PDP).
Mehbooba accused the Modi government of trying to break the economic backbone of people of Kashmir by suspending the cross-LoC trade with Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) and also ordering twice a week restrictions on the movement of civilian traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.