Back-door Voters: J&K parties say ploy to alter region’s demography, Farooq Abdullah seeks all-party meet

Back-door Voters: J&K parties say ploy to alter region's demography, Farooq Abdullah seeks all-party meet

Chief electoral officer Hirdesh Kumar Singh told reporters on Wednesday that the ongoing special summary revision of electoral rolls is likely to add around 2.5 million voters The development comes after Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti earlier in the day requested Abdullah for the meeting to discuss the next course of action following the J&K administration’s announcement The proposed addition of 2.5 million names to the electoral rolls in Jammu and Kashmir stirred a political hornet’s nest on Thursday, with local parties saying it was a ploy to alter…

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