PDP’s Srinagar candidate: ‘This election is not about NC and PDP… The real challenge, if they win or lose, continues to be BJP policies’
Waheed ur Rehman Para, 36, the president of the youth wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the party’s candidate for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, which votes on May 13. He is up against the National Conference (NC)’s Aga Ruhullah Mehdi and the Apni Party’s Mohammad Ashraf Mir. In an interview withThe Indian Express, he talks about why this election is different and how it could help to break the “silence” in the Valley. Excerpts: