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Panun Kashmir to boycott J-K elections

"The conditions required for holding free and fair polls are nonexistent. We strongly believe that the outcome of the exercise will not be a healthy democratic environment. Neither will it lessen the internal strife in the state," Panun Kashmir chairman Ajay Chrangoo said in Jammu.

In 1996, "we had warned well in advance about the dangerous implications of thoroughly subverted elections, saying they will only provide the democratic space to the terrorist-subversive operatives", he said.

Panun Kashmir had also cautioned the government and the Election Commission about the dangerous portents of ignoring the issue of religious cleansing in the state, Chrangoo said.

"We had emphasised that government should concern itself primarily with reversing the genocidal war launched on Hindus before conducting elections," he said. "Ensuring right of franchise before ensuring right to live is like putting cart before the horse."

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