India uses elections in Kashmir and votes of Kashmiries as a tool to assert that Kashmiris want to be with India. As the dates of the Lok Sabha polls were announced, the pro-freedom groups launched a massive campaign to keep people away from participating in elections.

Besides the veteran Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, other leaders including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik have also called for complete poll boycott. Not only the resistance camp but religious groups including influential Jamaite-Ahilhaidth, Jamaat-e-Islami have also called for the same.

The recently formed 3rd front of Hurriyat Conference, Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) has pointed out 5 reasons why you should boycott elections that are being held in Kashmir. These are:-

(1) To be loyal to the sacrifices of great martyrs of nation.

(2) To revere the unmarked bodies buried across the valley.

(3) To ensure the secure future of our progeny.

(4) To secure the sanctity of our women and homes.

(5) Elections and freedom are contrary to each other. (to be far from elections is a call to freedom).