Pull-out threat over veil row

Opposition National Conference today threatened to pull out of the third and fourth phase of parliamentary polls if the Election Commission ...

Opposition National Conference today threatened to pull out of the third and fourth phase of parliamentary polls if the Election Commission does not take action on its complaint against People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti for lifting the veil off a genuine voter. Feeling humiliated, the woman had left without casting her vote.

The National Conference has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against the incident at Sonawar during the second round of polls in Srinagar parliamentary constituency. Party spokesman Devender Rana said the party was contemplating to pull out of the remaining two phases of the polls if the Commission failed to act on its complaint as Mehbooba had flouted all election norms.

The PDP president, while touring election booths on April 26 to detect bogus voters, had forcibly removed the veil of Shabnum while she was at the Sonawar polling station, alleging that she was part of the National Conference’s mobile voter team.

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Anantnag in south Kashmir goes to polls in the third phase on May 5 where Mehbooba is the ruling party’s candidate while Ladakh and Udhampur are slated for polling on May 10.

Rana said the NC had substantiated its allegations against the PDP president with photographs and statements of the voter.

The National Conference spokesman said the party would make one more representation to the Election Commission on the issue before taking a final decision.

Party president Omar Abdullah was not available for comment as he was headed for Banihal in Doda for campaign.

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The pullout threat came even as militants tried to disrupt the poll process in Pulwama, lobbing grenades at two polling stations on Saturday night and firing at a CPI(M) activist and his entourage on Sunday morning.

Militants lobbed a grenade at a polling station in a high school at Dadsar in Tral on Saturday night but no damage was caused, official sources said.

CPI(M) activist Ghulam Rasool Malik who was campaigning for party candidate Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami in Tral had a close shave when his entourage was fired upon by militants.

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