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In the absence of elected representatives to the Jammu and Kashmir legislature and local bodies to represent them, villagers are raising concerns about delays in administrative work. The term of panchayats in J&K ended on January 9 and fresh elections have not been announced yet, making District Development Councils the sole tier of elected governance in the Union Territory at present.
When the National Conference’s Mian Altaf won his first parliamentary election on Tuesday against the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) Mehbooba Mufti in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, he continued his winning streak.
On the final day of his campaigning for the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency Saturday, the National Conference (NC)’s vice-president and candidate Omar Abdullah held road shows across Budgam district in Central Kashmir.
The entire Kargil unit of the National Conference (NC) has resigned, citing pressure from the party leadership to support the INDIA bloc candidate for the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency, which votes on May 20.
Aga Ruhullah Mehdi is the National Conference (NC) candidate from Srinagar, which is expected to be one of the most keenly contested battles in the parliamentary elections in the Union Territory. Mehdi, an influential Shia leader, will take on Waheed Para of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In the upper reaches of the Ganderbal district, Waheed ur Rehman Para walks with slow deliberate steps. His head down, he shakes hands with everyone crossing his path as scores of supporters follow, shouting slogans hailing him. A member of the District Development Council (DDC) in Pulwama, he could not take oath of office owing to his incarceration under the stringent UAPA. Now, Para is a leading contender for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, which votes on May 13.
With the Congress officially extending its support to the National Conference (NC) for the three parliamentary seats in the Valley, the Mehbooba Mufti-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have been cornered in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the Lok Sabha polls, even as the three parties remain constituents of the Opposition INDIA alliance.
The National Conference (NC) on Monday announced the candidature of senior party leader Mian Altaf Ahmed Lahrvi from the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary seat, which is the home constituency of the NC’s INDIA alliance partner and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti. Both Mehbooba, who won from Anantnag in 2014, and her father and PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed have represented the constituency in Parliament.
Several checkpoints have come up across Srinagar as part of heightened security measures, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the city on Thursday, his first since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, soon after his government returned to power for a second term.