Srinagar, May 10 -- The electoral battle in Baramulla Lok Sabha is heating up, with former chief minister Omar Abdullah and Peoples Conference chairperson Sajjad Lone trading barbs over what the former has described as "arbitrary cancellation" of prior permissions granted to his election-related events.

With the constituency, spread over four districts, set to go to polls on May 20, both National Conference and the Peoples Conference are running high-decibel campaigns.

Abdullah on Thursday blamed the administration for helping the BJP proxy candidate, a reference to Lone, writing on 'X', "My opponents have been unnerved by the tremendous response my campaign is receiving throughout North Kashmir... They have taken to hiding behind the a...