Srinagar: DPAP chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said the voting percentage in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is not high enough to show that people are happy with the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories in 2019. Are or are angry.
The Srinagar constituency recorded 37.98 per cent turnout on Monday in the first Lok Sabha election in the Valley since the abrogation of Article 370, with the Election Commission (EC) saying it was the "highest turnout in decades".
Azad said, "I was expecting that there would be 80 to 90 percent voting in Kashmir considering what has been happening in the last seven-eight years. Article 37 was removed, statehood was taken away. So I thought that the voting There will be more.“Like 90 to 95 percent.
"An increase of a few percent hardly matters because it happens in every constituency in India. This way, we cannot know whether people are angry or happy (with the abrogation of Article 370 and taking away statehood). This This is a new thing for me,” Azad told reporters while campaigning for his party's candidate in Kulgam district.
Regarding the increase in voting percentage in terrorism-hit areas like Tral of Pulwama, the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) president said that a few percentage point increase in voting after every election is normal across India."There were some areas affected by militancy. After 1994-95, militancy started reducing. Today militancy is negligible. 30-40 per cent of votes were cast in the areas affected by militancy and even in areas which were not affected. " Equal voting,” he said.Asked about the protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the former chief minister said he sympathized with the people of Pakistan as they had not got a democratic system like India.
He said, "I feel pity for the people of Pakistan because they have not got the kind of democratic government that India has got. Generals either run the government directly or their nominees run the government in Pakistan."
The Srinagar constituency recorded 37.98 per cent turnout on Monday in the first Lok Sabha election in the Valley since the abrogation of Article 370, with the Election Commission (EC) saying it was the "highest turnout in decades".
Azad said, "I was expecting that there would be 80 to 90 percent voting in Kashmir considering what has been happening in the last seven-eight years. Article 37 was removed, statehood was taken away. So I thought that the voting There will be more.“Like 90 to 95 percent.
"An increase of a few percent hardly matters because it happens in every constituency in India. This way, we cannot know whether people are angry or happy (with the abrogation of Article 370 and taking away statehood). This This is a new thing for me,” Azad told reporters while campaigning for his party's candidate in Kulgam district.
Regarding the increase in voting percentage in terrorism-hit areas like Tral of Pulwama, the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) president said that a few percentage point increase in voting after every election is normal across India."There were some areas affected by militancy. After 1994-95, militancy started reducing. Today militancy is negligible. 30-40 per cent of votes were cast in the areas affected by militancy and even in areas which were not affected. " Equal voting,” he said.Asked about the protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the former chief minister said he sympathized with the people of Pakistan as they had not got a democratic system like India.
He said, "I feel pity for the people of Pakistan because they have not got the kind of democratic government that India has got. Generals either run the government directly or their nominees run the government in Pakistan."
