Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra responding to a notice from the Election Commission of India (ECI), clarified on Friday that the reference to a “referendum” was to highlight the “importance of the election and nothing else”. Meanwhile, the administration has allowed poll rallies by National Conference (NC) candidate Omar Abdullah in the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat, a day after he filed a complaint.
“The reference to the aspect that the ‘ensuing election is no less than a referendum’, only points towards the importance the present election holds and nothing else. Any other inference drawn by any person is not the intendment of the undersigned,” Mr. Parra said in the reply.
The ECI, in its notice on Thursday, allowed two days’ time to clear speeches made during campaigning in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
