J&K’s regional parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference (NC), on Tuesday, said the second highest voter turnout of 38% since 1989 in the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat on May 13 was people’s expression “against the Centre’s moves of August 5, 2019”.
PDP president and former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti described the healthy voting pattern as “people’s way to convey a message to the Centre on the decisions of August 5, 2019”. “The decisions of the Center were not accepted by the people of Kashmir,” she said.
She urged voters “to vote en masse in the remaining two phases of Parliamentary elections in Kashmir”. “Each vote cast for the PDP would be a clear message against the arbitrary and unconstitutional decisions made on August 5, 2019, and a demand for their reversal,” Ms. Mufti said.
