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Geelani asks Kashmiris to boycott Lok Sabha polls

Srinagar: Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Friday called for a boycott of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls that will be followed by the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.Geelani was addressing a gathering after Friday

Reacting to allegations that the government ended his house arrest so he could seek people's support for poll boycott so the ruling NC could win through bogus voting and rigging, Geelani said, "For me the NC, the PDP or the so-called Third Front are all the same.

"They are collaborators for continuing Indian rule in Kashmir. Pro-India political parties always brokered our natural resources for their power."

He also blamed the United Nations Organisation for what he alleged was the failure of the world body to have its Security Council resolutions on Kashmir implemented which mandated the right of self-determination for the people of divided Kashmir.