Sajad Lone Good Byes Gupkar Alliance
- 19-Jan-2021
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On Tuesday, People's Conference chairperson Sajad Lone announced his party's exit from the opposition alliance over the recent District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Lone announced the decision in a letter to People`s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) head and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah. In a letter, Lone said that the reason behind quitting is that some constituents of the grouping had fielded proxy candidates in the district development council (DDC) election.
On the face of it, PAGD won these elections unambiguously having won the maximum number of seats. We can't hide statistics and apart from the number of seats that PAGD won, other important statistical variable in the context of August 5 (Abrogation of Article 370) is the number of votes polled against the PAGD, says Lone letter.
Lone believes the votes polled against the PAGD are mostly those cast by proxies of PAGD constituent parties against official PAGD candidates. And the net outcome of selectively voting for and against PAGD is a very poor vote share. This is certainly not the vote share that people of J and K deserved post-August 5.
