SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the Election Commission of India should convene a meeting of political parties to allay their apprehension about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

“There are apprehensions, and it will be better that the Election Commission call people like us to make us understand what SIR really is because we have seen that while you do not steal elections through machines, but they are surely manipulated,” Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a passing out parade of the army’s JAKLI regiment. Abdullah called the 2023 delimitation in J-K a manipulation of elections.

“You created seven seats for political gains that led to benefiting a single party or its friends. The elections are manipulated like that. So, there

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