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The Congress, on Wednesday, said that Jammu and Kashmir should be placed under Central rule prior to the assembly election and outstation presiding officers deployed for the polls.
Talking to reporters in Srinagar on Wednesday, Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Peerzada Mohammad Syed said, "Presiding officers should be deployed from outside the state as was done in 1996 and paramilitary troops be deployed at each polling booth during the election."
"Election will not be free and fair unless and until Governor's rule is imposed in the state. People have lost faith in the National Conference regime and they want Central rule in the state, so that they could exercise their franchise freely," he said.
Syed said the Congress had asked the Chief Election Commissioner, during his recent visit to the valley, for a general revamp of the administration before the polls.
He rejected the government's claim that Congress activists were being provided adequate security cover.
"Instead the security provided to some of our workers are being withdrawn, while NC workers and leaders are enjoying proper and adequate security," he said.
He added that this was done in spite of the recent terrorist attack on Congress headquarters.
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