Srinagar: PDP candidate and chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s brother Tassaduq Hussain has urged Election Commission to defer Anantnag Lok Sabha bypoll indefinitely in the view of volatile situation in the district.
Hussain made the plea to the EC officials during a video conference on Monday.
"Hussain asked the Election Commission to defer the bypoll to Anantnag Lok Sabha seat indefinitely till the situation is conducive for the elections there," PDP general secretary Nizamuddin Bhat told PTI on Tuesday.
The Election Commission had organised the video conference with all the contesting candidates to ascertain their views about holding of elections to the constituency on May 25.
The bypoll was earlier scheduled to be held on April 12 but was postponed following large scale violence during Srinagar Lok Sabha bypoll on April 9 that left nine people dead.
The bypoll to the Srinagar constituency saw the lowest turnout of 7.1 per cent. It was won by National Conference's Farooq Abdullah.
Anantnag Lok Sabha seat had fallen vacant after Mehbooba became the Chief Minister last year following the death of her father Mufti Sayeed.
(With PTI input)
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