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Sheikh Nazir, general secretary of the ruling National Conference, on Wednesday rejected the opposition's demand to postpone assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
He was reacting to a statement by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that elections be postponed by a few months.
"Why didn't these parties place this demand before the Election Commission of India during the all-party meetings convened by the commission during the last couple of months?" Nazir asked.
Speaking to rediff.com from his residence in Srinagar, he dismissed allegations of dead persons figuring in the electoral rolls.
"The rolls have been carefully prepared under the supervision of the ECI. The opposition parties can say anything to get the elections postponed," he clarified.
He also rejected the opposition demand for imposition of central rule in the state.
"Why single out Jammu and Kashmir for imposing governor's rule while holding elections?" he asked.
He argued that imposing central rule would amount to admitting that all was not well in the state so far.
He said the NC has not taken any decision regarding making newly-anointed party president Omar Abdullah the chief minister of the state before the elections.
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