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PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti will contest the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat towards DPAP president Ghulam Nabi Azad. (PTI file picture)
The Nationwide Convention has fielded influential Gujjar chief Mian Altaf Ahmad from the seat and the Apni Occasion has named Zaffar Iqbal Manhas. The BJP has not introduced its candidate up to now
Peoples Democratic Occasion president Mehbooba Mufti will contest the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat towards DPAP president Ghulam Nabi Azad, making the newly carved out constituency essentially the most high-profile contest in Jammu and Kashmir in these elections.
The Nationwide Convention has fielded influential Gujjar chief Mian Altaf Ahmad from the seat and the Apni Occasion has named Zaffar Iqbal Manhas. The BJP has not introduced its candidate up to now.
PDP Parliamentary Board Chief Sartaj Madni on Sunday introduced the social gathering candidates for the three seats of Kashmir. The social gathering’s youth wing president Waheed Parra will contest the polls from Srinagar and former Rajya Sabha member Mir Fayaz from Baramulla. The candidates have been introduced by the social gathering at a press convention addressed by Mufti and Madni. They stated the PDP will assist the Congress on two Jammu area seats of Udhampur and Jammu.
Requested if the Congress will reciprocate in Kashmir, the PDP president stated she was not extending assist to the nationwide social gathering on quid professional quo foundation. “We’ve got determined to assist the Congress for the bigger combat to save lots of the Structure and democracy.”
“However I’d attraction to not solely Congress staff however NC staff additionally to assist me in order that we will take the voice of the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir to Parliament,” she stated. “My attraction to all individuals of the constituency — from Anantnag to Rajouri and Poonch — is to come back collectively as we’re passing by means of a essential stage. Individuals can not discuss. Speaking has grow to be a criminal offense. If somebody raises voice, he’s labelled as anti-national,” she added.
On her social gathering contesting towards INDIA bloc associate Nationwide Convention, Mufti stated she had left the ball in NC president Farooq Abdullah’s court docket. “We had left the choice to Farooq Abdullah. We might not thoughts even when they’d contested all of the seats however they need to have no less than consulted us. They need to not have demeaned our social gathering and staff by saying they’ll see our behaviour in Lok Sabha polls earlier than deciding on alliance for Meeting elections,” she stated.
In response to a query, the PDP president stated her social gathering’s manifesto will take the real voices of individuals to Delhi. She alleged that the Centre was utilizing all its would possibly towards her within the south Kashmir constituency.
“Delhi is pushing all would possibly into the south Kashmir constituency. They’ve immediately put up some candidates and a few others not directly. I’ve been a fighter all alongside and I made a decision to tackle the problem,” she stated.
Requested about BJP chief Tarun Chugh assembly Individuals’s Convention president Sajad Gani Lone and Apni social gathering founder Altaf Bukhari on Saturday, Mufti in a cryptic response stated “you haven’t counted Azad Sahib”. “Democracy is a battle of concepts and other people determine. I don’t have any private points with them, ” she stated.
On the Congress social gathering’s manifesto, the previous chief minister stated this was the very best manifesto prior to now 70 years. “It doesn’t speak about 2 crore jobs however 30 lakh jobs solely. It doesn’t have jumlas however achievable objectives.”
Requested if she is going to marketing campaign for the INDIA bloc exterior Jammu and Kashmir, the PDP president stated she can not do it. “We couldn’t strengthen the alliance right here in Jammu and Kashmir which is in such horrible state of affairs.
What is going to I say to individuals elsewhere?” she stated. Mufti has contested Lol sabha elections 3 times earlier and gained twice — in 2004 and 2014. Her solely electoral defeat got here by the hands of Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah within the 1999 common elections.
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