J&K poll rolls revision: TRF vows attacks on migrants | India News

SRINAGAR: A Pakistan-sponsored online mouthpiece, KashmirFight, for the Lashkar-backed terror outfit TRF on Thursday warned of a more intense wave of attacks targeting “migrant Pandits” and other “non-locals” in J&K, ostensibly in response to the chief electoral officer’s estimate that the ongoing summary revision of rolls could see the addition of up to 25 lakh new voters in the Union Territory.
KashmirFight’s threat to unleash violence through “resistance fighters” coincided with a chorus of dissenting mainstream voices, led by National Conference president and Srinagar MP Farooq Abdullah’s call to “unite against the latest onslaught” at an all-party meeting next Monday. BJP is the only party to have not received an invite for the meeting.

At the heart of the uproar is CEO Hirdesh Kumar’s statement in Jammu on Wednesday that anyone from any part of the country “ordinarily” living in J&K for work, education or business could now choose to get enlisted as a voter in accordance with the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
KashmirFight, which in its previous avatar as a banned blog was known to threaten journalists and activists in Jammu & Kashmir, claimed “making stooges and traitors vote” was a step towards initiating “demographic change”.
In Srinagar, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration comprising NC, Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP and CPM attempted a reconciliation of sorts with Altaf Bukhari’s Apni Party and Sajjad Lone’s People’s Conference by pitching the alleged bid to pack the electoral rolls with non-Kashmiris as a challenge they needed to combat together. “We should focus on resolution of the Kashmir issue more than polls. Our youth are being radicalised. Kashmiri Pandits are getting killed, security personnel are being shot dead, and everybody is suffering,” ex-CM Mehbooba said.
She claimed granting voting rights to non-Kashmiris was aimed at perpetrating a fraud in the name of elections and getting “BJP fascists” to run the UT. “They have understood after three years (since the nullification of Art 370) that they can’t otherwise break the resistance of our silent people.”