KL Report

Srinagar

The All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) Tuesday withdrew its boycott call of Legislative Council elections to be held under the Panchayat quota in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Our organisation stands for democratic principles. In the larger interest of democracy, we are withdrawing our poll boycott call,” AJKPC chairman Shafiq Mir told reporters in Jammu.

Asking panches and sarpanches to vote according to their conscience, he said the AJKPC would not support any particular group or individual.

Provincial president, Kashmir, Imtiyal Afzal Beigh while addressing the media persons said that AJKPC was the only organization which is credited of having members from all sections, regions and communities of the society.

Withdrawal of poll boycott from AJKPC is seen as a positive sign for the said LC polls. The organization had earlier lashed out at all the pro India political parties accusing that these parties were using panchs and sarpanchs as scapegoats by neither empowering nor protecting them.

Sources close to AJKPC said that coalition government approached the leadership of the organization a number of times since last week and finally the government and the AJKPC reached an ‘agreement’. The sources, however, did not disclose the ‘agreement’.

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