Omar Abdullah: Congress’s ‘Vote Chori’ Claims Unrelated to INDIA Bloc

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday distanced himself from the “vote chori” concern raised by the Congress and stated the “INDIA bloc has received nothing to do with it”.

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His remarks got here a day after high Congress leaders attacked the BJP and the election commissioners at a ‘Vote Chor Gaddi Chhod’ rally within the nationwide capital, alleging that “vote chori” is within the ruling get together’s DNA and its leaders had been “gaddar (traitors)” who had been conspiring to remove voting rights of individuals and needs to be faraway from energy.

Abdullah’s Nationwide Convention is a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc. The Congress is the most important get together within the coalition by way of the variety of opposition MPs within the Lok Sabha.

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Requested to touch upon the problem of “vote chori” and alleged electoral irregularities being highlighted by the Congress, Abdullah stated, “The INDIA bloc has received nothing to do with it. Each political get together is at liberty to set its personal agenda. The Congress has made ‘vote chori’ and the SIR (particular intensive revision of the voter listing) as its essential points. Who’re we to inform them in any other case?”

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The Congress has claimed that it has collected round six crore signatures towards “vote theft” and can current the identical to President Droupadi Murmu.