Srinagar, May 5, 2014

Besides deployment of armed forces in North Kashmir’s Baramullah district, a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir People’s League comprising Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi, Jaffer Kashmiri, Shakeel-ul-Rahman and others visited Fatehgund area of the district and appealed people to stay away from the polls.

Addressing people at several places leaders said that elections can’t be substitute to right to self determination and urged people to show their love for the freedom struggle by boycotting the polls like people in South Kashmir and Srinagar rejected and boycotted.

They said that Barmullah is the land of great martyrs including of Shaheed Mohad Maqbool bhat, Shaheed Mohd Afzal Guru while as Jammu and Kashmir people’s league former chairman, Shaheed-e-Azemat Sheikh Abdul Aziz also achieved his martyrdom on this soil, so people must respect the sacrifices of martyrs by staying away from the polls and convey to India that people of Kashmir will not allow the sacrifices of martyrs to go waste. They said that party has always rejected the polls so will continue in future till Kashmir issue gets resolved according to aspirations and wishes of people.