“If I wanted, I could have fought the election and even won,” Lone rubbed it in. “Geelani knows it. But I boycotted for the larger Kashmir cause.”
The PC chief also said he had no social relations with sister Shabnum. “Now how can he accuse me of being a party to her election campaign?” Lone said.
Saying that he “rejected Geelani’s brand of politics”, Lone remarked: “I was expecting that on his return he would ask me to be steadfast on my resolve. I didn’t expect this cheap attack.”