Omar Abdullah Defends NC Votes, Questions Invalid Ballots Amid Sajad Lone’s Allegations – Alfaaz – The Words

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and JKNC Vice President Omar Abdullah on Friday insisted that all National Conference (NC) votes remained intact during the recently concluded Rajya Sabha elections, while raising questions about invalid votes that benefited the BJP.

Taking to X, Abdullah wrote, “All of @JKNC_ votes remained intact across the four elections, as witnessed by our election agent who saw each polling slip. There was no cross voting from any of our MLAs so the questions arise – where did the 4 extra votes of the BJP come from? Who were the MLAs who deliberately invalidated their votes by marking a wrong preference number while voting? Do they have the guts to put their hands up and own up to helping the BJP after promising us their votes? What pressure or inducement helped them make this choice? Let’s see if any of the BJP’s secret team own up to selling their souls!”

Abdullah’s post comes in the wake of criticism from Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone, who had accused both NC and BJP of orchestrating a “fixed match” in the elections. Lone, who abstained from voting, had posted on X, “So BJP wins the fourth seat. As predicted fixed match. Axis of the evil. NC and BJP. Thank God I abstained. Imagine what my plight would have been. Now mathematically proved. That it was a fixed match. Who cross voted. Whose votes were rejected. And who was hand in glove.”

The Rajya Sabha elections saw NC winning three of the four seats, while the BJP claimed the fourth.