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Indian Elections in Jammu & Kashmir
Report 2

The Indian Express (Delhi) 6, September 1999
Army jawans drag Kashmiris to booths

Vikram Jit Singh & Nazir Masoodi

KRUHAMA (KASHMIR), SEPT 5: Concerted efforts by personnel of the BSF,
CRPF, Rashtriya Rifles and the Special Operations Group to `enforce' a
good voter turnout across the Kangan-Ganderbal-Downtown Srinagar belt
paid only marginal returns. At the end of the day, the turnout was below
25 per cent.

Even this is suspect since The Indian Express was witness to numerous instances of Kashmiri voters prodded to the ballot box by AK rifle-wielding jawans. In the evening, these `voters' would be made to show their fingers to the
security forces as testimony of having renewed their membership of
democracy. They call it the `nail parade.'

A burly counter-insurgent working with the armed forces burst into 55-year-old Zoona's hovel in Kruhama spilling the milk she had put on boil. She was dragged out for the date with democracy. The illiterate woman cast her vote for the `albane' (National Conference's plough) and ensured she had her finger inked.
Her neighbour, Sara, 40, bore the brunt of rifle butts when sherefused to leave the bakery shop. A student of Class VII, 12-year-old Tariq Ahmad cast his `vote' at Kruhama polling station. Hustled to the polling station, Manzoor Ahmad, 17,
didn't figure in the voters' list. But sympathetic polling staff inked his finger in front of these correspondents to save his skin in the evening `nail parade' before the security forces.

If the SOG/CRPF team led by Inspector Jeevan Sharma utilised the services of a counter-insurgent, Mustafa, in Kruhama and Barsoo, it was the Rashtriya Rifles resorting to an innovative tactic in nearby Yar Muqam, Manigam.

`Yesterday, the RR took away our ID cards. We were told that when we show the ink on our fingers today evening, only then will the ID cards be returned to us,' said the aged Yar Mohammad, a Gujjar. Around him were his fellow `voters'
in a frenzy locating their names on the voters' list.

In the idyllic surroundings of the trout-breeding centre at Margund, Kangan, polling agents of a leading party elucidated on the credentialsof patriotism demanded of them.

`Even us polling agents have come here to show our patriotism as the Ikhwanis (counter-insurgents) are even demanding weapons from dead persons. That is to say that all of us are under suspicion and constantly harassed by Ikhwanis. Today evening we must show the ink marks on our fingers to the Ikhwanis,' said a polling agent preferring
anonymity.

Driving through the deserted streets of downtown Srinagar, one sees people being herded out like cattle from the narrow lanes by the 97 BSF. People protested before the BSF officers and jawans in Zadibal, Nowshera. Some got abuses in return. `We have no choice but to cast our votes. These candidates standing for election will not be our real representatives,' said Ghulam Hassan, as he turned around to the BSF personnel and asked him: `If you were in my place and had no choice, would you vote or not? It is my right to cast a vote or boycott.'

Right through Zadibal and Cowdara, the BSF was seen herding out people. When asked toexplain, BSF personnel had their versions. One said that they were merely helping voters find the right booths. A BSF officer said that the voters needed an alibi of being forced out by the security forces to escape the wrath of the militants enforcing the poll boycott.
 

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Isn't this all wrong ?
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