National Conference (NC) president Dr. Farooq Abdullah, also head of the regional parties’ amalgam Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), on Saturday criticised the J&K Delimitation Commission’s draft proposal and termed it “a planned strategy to favour the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its designs for J&K”.
“The panel has worked in favour of the BJP. I foresee that the larger plan is to get a resolution passed in favour of [reading down of] Article 370 in the J&K assembly. Then the BJP will take the case to the court and claim a victory,” Dr. Abdullah said, after a meeting of the constituents of the Gupkar alliance at his residence in Srinagar.
He said the panel’s draft had increased the sense of alienation in J&K. “The panel’s recommendations are biased. The seats have been increased in a way to benefit the BJP and to help the party sail through the elections,” Dr. Abdullah said.
