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Repoll sought in Srinagar

Mehbooba Mufti, independent candidate from Srinagar, today demanded repoll throughout the constituency, alleging rigging and booth-capturing by the ruling National Conference.

Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Mufti, daughter of former Union minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, said some ruling party MLAs went to different polling stations with some others to cast votes in favour of National Conference candidate and son of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah.

She gave the numbers of about a dozen vehicles, which, according to her, were used to carry "mobile" voters from one polling station to another.

She alleged that members of the Special Operation Group and the personnel security officers of ministers and NC leaders were seen casting votes in Kangan, Badgam and Charar-e-Sharief after her polling agents were beaten and physically thrown out of polling stations.

Mufti said she brought the irregularities to the notice of chief electoral officer but no action was taken. She said some women cast votes five to seven times in some polling booths and there was nobody to check them.

She said no central observer was visible anywhere during the polling.

She said some people told her they were boycotting the polls because of a strike called by the All-Party Hurriyat Conference. But, she said, most of them actually were not voting because they knew the NC would rig the elections as it had done earlier.

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