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Pakistan-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen on Saturday threatened to 'teach a lesson' to all those who participated in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections and called for a general strike on October 8 when six constituencies in Doda district go to the polls in the fourth and final phase of polling in the state.
"We will not pardon those who participated in the elections. We will teach them a lesson. There should be no doubt about it," Saiful Islam, Hizb's chief commander in J&K, said in a statement issued hours after the BSF claimed to have foiled a plan of the group to target contestants of the polls by arresting seven militants.
"Those participating in the elections are traitors and action against them will be taken after the elections are over," the statement, issued to a Srinagar-based news agency NAFA, said.
He has also called for a strike in the valley on October 7 in protest against an alleged blasphemous remark by an American right wing politician.
In another development, authorities have decided to use helicopters for transporting poll personnel and material to hilly and far-flung areas of Doda district going to the polls in the final phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on October eight.
As per the proposal, poll personnel and election material will be airdropped in Ramban, Doda, Bhaderwah, Banihal and Kishtwar constituencies well in advance.
The poll personnel and the relevant material would be airlifted on completion of the polling, sources said.
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