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Srinagar: Jailed parliamentarian Engineer Rashids Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) is set to field around three dozen candidates in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, potentially turning them into a four-cornered contest and adding uncertainty about the nature of the mandate..
Multiple politicians across party lines whom ThePrint spoke to are of the view that a multi-cornered contest raises the prospect of a fractured verdict, which may result in Presidents Rule being continued and an elected government eluding the people even after six years...
Given how Rashid galvanised the youth in the Lok Sabha elections, the AIPs large-scale entry into the electoral fray in the Kashmir Valley threatens to upset the electoral calculations of mainstream parties such as the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which have traditionally held sway in the region..
Rashids AIP is now seeking to build on its Lok Sabha poll momentum in the assembly elections even as the Independent MP remains in jail waiting for bail..
Around eight to nine Independent MLAs may win and go with the BJP, a senior BJP functionary told ThePrint, clarifying that he was not talking about the MLAs of Lones PC or Altaf Bukharis Apni Partythe two that are commonly seen as potential BJP allies...
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