SRINAGAR: (Sep 29) National Conference (NC) Lok Sabha MP Ruhullah Mehdi on Monday said the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were delayed in 2018 under a “conspiracy” to facilitate the “backdoor” abrogation of Article 370.

“The Constitution says that elections have to be held within six months of any seat getting vacant or if the Assembly is dissolved. In 2018, when the Assembly was dissolved here, this regime delayed the election, which was illegal and unconstitutional,” Mehdi told reporters in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

Mehdi, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, said there “was a conspiracy behind that delay” so that the Assembly should not be in place and they can abrogate Article 370 “through the backdoor” by the governor’s signature.

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