Baramulla candidate Omar Abdullah has called the police’s “discriminatory action” a “direct assault on democracy and the principles of fair competition in electoral arena” which was aimed at derailing the party’s election campaign.
New Delhi: The National Conference has written a letter to the Election Commission of India on the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s “unjust cancellation of prior permissions” granted to the party for its campaign activities in north Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency, where the election is scheduled on May 20.
In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner on Thursday, May 9, the party’s candidate for Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency and former chief minister of J&K Omar Abdullah called the police’s “discriminatory action” a “direct assault on democracy and the principles of fair competition in electoral arena” which was aimed at derailing the party’s election campaign.
“The decision to cancel these permissions is not only arbitrary but also a blatant and egregious attempt to surreptitiously disadvantage the JKNC as compared to other political parties,” Omar said, claiming that the police have “no power whatsoever” to deny permission for campaign activities “after the period of campaigning has lapsed”.
Earlier in the day, the National Conference’s chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq told the media that the J&K police had moved the Baramulla district administration to cancel the permissions granted to the party for campaign activities in Baramulla constituency ahead of the polling on May 20.
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