J&K elections: “It is the speciality of democracy, everyone has the right to contest election. I read the news that Jamat-e-Islami was hoping for lifting on ban on them, so that they would be fielding their candidates. But the ban was not lifted before the sounding of election bugle. Now they would be fielding independent candidates, we wanted them to field their candidates under their symbol, but let them field independent candidates. It is up to the people whom they want to vote. I am grateful to the HM that he mentioned our manifesto. After that, many other people read it. He only saw one paragraph, he also mentioned many things that we did not mention in manifesto. I read the manifesto again but I did not find them,” says National Conference leader Omar Abdullah.
