National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Monday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is not conducive for elections, PTI reported. He also reiterated his party’s demand for dissolution of the Legislative Assembly to stop horse-trading rumours.
On June 19, the coalition government in the state collapsed after the Bharatiya Janata Party ended its alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party. The state is currently under Governor’s rule.
“The reality is that the situation in Jammu may be conducive for polls but the situation in Kashmir is very grave,” the former chief minister said, adding that his party will take part in the elections whenever normalcy returns.
He also said that neither justice not development took place in the state under the Mehbooba Mufti-led government. “We fight elections not for power or politics but to resolve common people’s issues,” he claimed. “Had that been so I would have never left the chair in 2002. To tell you the fact, power is not my aim or goal.”
The National Conference leader asserted that his party was not indulging in horse-trading. “National Conference is on record demanding the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly,” Abdullah said, according to the Hindustan Times. “The cure for all these rumours of horse-trading, breaking political parties over government formation will be solved with the dissolution of assembly.”
On Saturday, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav had said that his party was in the favour of continuing with governor’s rule in the interest of peace, governance and development. His comments followed a news report that Abdullah shared on Twitter claiming that several PDP MLAs were in touch with the BJP.
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