SRINAGAR: 9 individuals have been injured when supporters of the Nationwide Convention (NC) legislator Nazir Ahmad Khan and his Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) rival Faqeer Khan clashed throughout the newly elected MLA’s go to to the Tulail space of Bandipora district on Tuesday night, police mentioned.
Tulail station home officer Naseer Ahmad mentioned a primary info report has been registered after a cavalcade of the lawmaker was allegedly focused in Tulail’s Gujran.
“There have been clashes between BJP and NC employees wherein some 9 individuals have been injured and a few 10 autos have been broken together with two official autos,” Ahmad mentioned. Two of the injured have been shifted to Srinagar.
Nazir Ahmad, who received the Gurez constituency of north Kashmir, accused BJP chief Faqeer Khan’s supporters of throwing stones at his motorcade when he was coming back from a rally. Nazir Ahmad Khan received the Gurez seat with 8,378 votes, 1,132 greater than the runner-up Faqeer Khan’s 7,246 votes.
“I’ve been visiting totally different locations within the constituency for the previous 10 days to thank individuals for my victory. I visited each village. Yesterday I went to Gujran, which is the village of my opponent. I thanked individuals after which on the finish, we needed to go to Checkwali. On our return, the police informed us that folks had assembled on the highway and weren’t permitting us to maneuver. We have been stopped for 2 hours. Later police took me in a Maruti gypsy on which stones have been thrown and there was an try to homicide me,” he mentioned.
“After we crossed, the autos behind us, together with my personnel automobile, have been additionally attacked with stones. 4-five autos have been broken and 4-5 individuals have been injured. That is hooliganism. I talked to the SSP and the police have registered an FIR and I hope the culprits will likely be arrested quickly,” he added.
Nazir pressured that the stones have been principally thrown by Faqeer Khan’s kinfolk
Faqeer Khan’s son and Tulail District Improvement Council member, Aijaz Ahmad Khan mentioned NC employees provoked the clashes.
“Yesterday at Gujran, first they attacked our dwelling and abused girls of our village. That’s the reason the mob resorted to violence from each side which prompted accidents to considered one of our women. The clashes went on for a while,” Aijaz mentioned.
Aijaz mentioned the NC lawmaker’s supporters ought to have raised slogans hailing their leaders, “and people slogans that ache the individuals of the opposite social gathering”.
“That’s the reason yesterday’s incident occurred. I blame Nazir Khan and his social gathering whose individuals attacked our houses,” he mentioned.
