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Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference president and MLA Sajad Lone connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) said his enactment would abstain from voting successful the coming Rajya Sabha elections connected October 24.
“I would alternatively dice than ballot for the National Conference [NC]. Stop dictating to america who we should ballot for and who we should not. You cannot statement us. You are not Yuvraj,” Mr. Lone said.
Referring to NC vice-president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s remarks that abstaining meant voting for the BJP, Mr. Lone said, “Today you [Mr. Abdullah] are successful the dock. You person to beryllium to the radical that you did not contradict a Rajya Sabha spot to the Congress connected the BJP’s orders. Prove to the radical that you are not sitting successful the BJP lap.”
Rejecting claims that abstention signals enactment for the BJP, Mr. Lone said helium would not beryllium amazed if Mr. Abdullah accused the Congress of having a pact with the BJP. “Your [Mr. Abdullah] consciousness of entitlement is synonymous with lunacy,” helium said.
Mr. Lone accused Mr. Abdullah of cosying up to the BJP. “Do you expect our ballot due to the fact that you talented crores of shawls to BJP leaders? Because you are nonstop partying with them successful Delhi? Or is it due to the fact that you were the archetypal to springiness them a just predetermination certificate? Or should we enactment you due to the fact that you were caught red-handed strolling manus successful manus with the writer of the draconian waqf bill, Mr. Kiren Rijiju, successful Tulip Garden?” helium said.
The JKPC has 1 spot successful the 88-member Assembly. Mr. Lone said the NC was acting arsenic “the BJP’s proxy successful Jammu and Kashmir”. “You instrumentality orders from them, contradict seats to different parties, and inactive impeach others of being aligned with the BJP. You person sacrificed everyone for them and won done lies and deceit,” helium added.
Contrasting the NC with the Congress, Mr. Lone said, “The Congress has consistently stood against the BJP and is the lone nationalist enactment susceptible of restoring statehood. Yet you humiliate them. I person personally assured enactment to galore Congress leaders. For the NC, however, we volition ne'er vote.”
Mr. Lone questioned the NC government’s legacy. “You travelled the satellite arsenic Foreign Minister of the past BJP government, justifying killings successful Kashmir. The radical voted for a leader, what they got was an errand lad for BJP. You person brought disrepute to the instauration of Chief Minister. It volition instrumentality a decennary to reconstruct this instauration to its erstwhile glory,” Mr. Lone said.
