Jammu, July 19 -- Share Tweet Share Suhail Rather Bandipora, July 19 (KNS) : Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Sunday alleged that the National Conference (NC) was responsible for the emergence of militancy in Kashmir during the 1990s, claiming that decades of election rigging destroyed people's faith in democracy and pushed the region into turmoil. Addressing a workers' convention in Bandipora, Bukhari said the roots of the armed insurgency lay in manipulated elections, particularly the 1987 Assembly polls. "I still say that if elections had not been rigged, especially in 1987, militancy would not have emerged the way it did. The rigging created leaders of militancy. Democracy was denied to the people ...