Srinagar- Objecting to PDP candidate Waheed Parra’s statement asking youngsters to consider the general election as a “referendum” to send New Delhi a “message”, the Jammu and Kashmir election department has asked him to explain the remark within two days and refrain from making such statements in the future.
In a letter to the PDP’s Srinagar Lok Sabha seat candidate, the nodal officer for monitoring the implementation of the Model Code of Conduct said that such statements have the potential to aggravate differences among communities.
Para’s office received the letter dated May 8 on Thursday. In the letter, the poll official drew Para’s attention to his speech available on social media in which the PDP candidate was purportedly heard asking people “not to treat this election as less than a referendum”.
In his speech, Parra had said that a message needs to be conveyed to New Delhi that “people’s silence here should not be construed as their contentment.”
“The future of youth is uncertain; people are scared, uncertain about their security,” the PDP also said.
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