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Former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be contesting the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir, his party announced on Sunday, thrusting the constituency into the spotlight of a prestige battle...
This decision was made in today's DPAP working committee meeting," Chief Spokesperson of the party Salman Nizami said on X...
Azad, as a candidate of his Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), will be taking on the National Conference's veteran leader Mian Altaf Ahmad, who is the INDIA bloc candidate...
Mian Altaf's candidature has, in fact, ended the chances of a pre-poll alliance between the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)..
Omar Abdullah's party's move also dented the prospects of the Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a political formation that was formed to fight for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmirs special status.. Mehabooba Mufti was vying for Anantnag, which had been a bastion of the PDP..
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