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Onkar Singh in New Delhi
The chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Mutahid Mahaz party, Mir Khurshid, on Tuesday alleged that posters put up by militant organisations had harmed his chances in the elections.
"The terrorists had put up posters against me saying that people should not vote for me. This is going to reduce my margin of victory," he told rediff.com on phone from his residence in Baramulla.
Khurshid was one of the thirteen candidates in the fray from Baramulla constituency, which went to polls on September 16.
He also alleged that rival parties had tried to rig the elections.
"I would say by and large polling in this constituency remained peaceful. I am confident that I would win this seat by a comfortable margin of over 2000 votes," he claimed.
Gulam Nabi Jaan of the National Conference and Muzzaffar Hussain Beg of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party also contested from the same seat.
Khurshid claimed that he once worked for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and carried money for terrorist outfits before he was won over by Indian intelligence agencies.
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