'90% people are willing to participate in the election'

Blaming Pakistan for "unrest" in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday claimed that 90 percent of the people in the state want to take part in the scheduled Panchayat and urban local bodies elections this month. Singh said that in the year 1995, there were about 6,000 incidents of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and in 2017 this number has fallen to 360. "I agree that there should be improvement in the situation of Jammu and Kashmir, but the problem we face is mostly because of Pakistan, we have always tried to improve relations with Pakistan, but the country is trying to improve our ties He continued to sponsor terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, "he said at the HT Leadership Summit here. Referring to the forthcoming elections of panchayat and urban local bodies in Jammu and Kashmir, the Home Minister said that 90% of the people of the state want to be involved in the election process, which the government has started after breaking for a long time. When asked about the many BJP candidates selected for local bodies, Singh recently said in Panchayat elections in West Bengal, 43% of the candidates won undisputed and such things are not uncommon. Talking about the BJP-PDP alliance, he said that both the parties respected the mandate of the previous state assembly elections by adding hand, but "the experiment was not successful".