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Give evidence or face legal
action, Farooq tells CEC

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Friday asked Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh to substantiate his charge that attempts were made by the police to "sabotage" the recent assembly election in J&K "to help" Abdullah's National Conference party.

"If [the] CEC has said so he should substantiate it with evidence or else we will go for legal proceedings against him," Abdullah told reporters in Srinagar.

Terming the CEC's statement as "unfortunate," he said those living in glass houses should not throw stones at others.

Participating in a programme on SAB TV on Thursday, the CEC had said there was an attempt to sabotage elections in J&K "by a few people, basically police, which would have helped Farooq Abdullah."

Abdullah said the CEC should have spent his energies on revision of electoral rolls and issuing I-cards to the people of the state living in far-flung areas rather than make such statements.

PTI

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