Separatists joining elections vindicates our stand: Omar Abdullah

Srinagar, Sep 2 (IANS) Omar Abdullah, the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Vice-President of the National Conference (NC), said on Monday that the separatists now joining the elections has vindicated the stand of the party that violence can achieve nothing.

Speaking to reporters in the Kangan Assembly constituency of Ganderbal district, where the NC has fielded Mian Meher Ali, the son of senior Gujjar leader and Lok Sabha member, Mian Altaf Ahmad, Omar Abdullah said that the decision of separatist leaders to join mainstream