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Can’t stop sympathizers from voting: Jamaat chief
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Thursday, 3 April 2014
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Srinagar: Reiterating
election boycott call, Kashmir’s socio-religious organization Jamaat-e-Islami
(JeI)Thursday said that its
cadre won’t take part in upcoming parliamentary polls but the group can’t stop
sympathizers from voting.
Talking to GNS
over phone from New Delhi, JeI chief, Muhammad Abdullah Wani said: “The
Jamaat’s Majlis-e-Shura (Central Advisory Council – the main decision making
body of the party) has announced that the party won’t participate in the
upcoming polls. We have directed our cadre not to vote for any mainstream party
as all of them are same for us.”
Wani, however,
said: “Though we have called for boycott, but we can’t stop those who are going
to vote even if the person will be Jamaat’s sympathizer.”
Elaborating
further, the Jamaat chief said: “A Jamaat cadre is accountable to the
organization but a sympathizer isn’t.”
Wani, while
reacting to National Conference leader, Mustafa Kamal’s allegations that Jamaat
will vote for Peoples Democratic Party in the elections, said: “I don’t know
from where he gets such information. It is baseless and far away from the
ground realities.”
“In 2008, two
Jamaat members from Doda had been found involved in casting their vote but
strict action was taken against them,” he informed.
“Last time we
took part in elections under the banner of Muslim United Front (MUF) in 1987
but since then we haven’t participated in any election,” he said.
He said Jamaat
believes that long pending issue of Kashmir should be solved according to
United Nations resolutions or tripartite talks between India, Pakistan and
Kashmir. (GNS)
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