Lok Sabha elections: Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Ghulam Nabi Azad to contest polls from Anantnag

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Former J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Anantnag parliamentary seata Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad..

"Today the core committee of DPAP met and we have decided that (party president) Ghulam Nabi Azad will contest the Anantnag-Rajouri seat," DPAP leader Taj Mohiuddin was quoted by PTI as saying..

Azad, who served as Union minister and also the chief minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, resigned from the Congress in 2022..

In an explosive five-page resignation letter to then interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the 75-year-old leader said that the grand old party has reached a situation of no return...

The Lok Sabha polls in the Union Territory will be held in the first five phases on April 19 (Udhampur), April 26 (Jammu), May 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), May 13 (Srinagar) and May 20 (Baramulla)..

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