SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference on Monday officially declared its President, Sajad Gani Lone, as the party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the North Kashmir Lok Sabha Segment.

This important announcement was made by the party’s Senior General Secretary, Imran Reza Ansari.

“In response to the duty assigned to me by the party to hold discussions with party leaders, and ascertain the best possible way forward in the upcoming Parliamentary elections, I have had extensive discussions over the past two weeks. I met all constituency heads and block level leaders,” Ansari observed, in a statement issued to GNS. 

He said based on his discussion with the party leaders, they have decided to fight and field a candidate from the Baramulla Parliamentary seat

“For Baramulla Parliamentary seat, the leadership and the rank and file of the party has overwhelmingly endorsed the candidature of our party President Mr Sajad Gani Lone. It is with great pleasure I formally announce that Mr Sajad Lone has acceded to the demand of the party. He will be the candidate of the party from Baramulla Parliamentary seat,” Ansari announced with enthusiasm.

He stated that party leadership wishes him the best and believes that the fiercest speeches on the floor of the parliament, advocating the just cause of our people will finally be delivered by Mr Sajad Lone after a painful wait of 7 decades.

“The people of J&K will finally get the chance to roar,” Ansari concluded. (GNS)

SRINAGAR: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti was re-elected as Peoples Democratic Party president for the term of three years.

This is for the sixth consecutive time that Mehbooba Mufti got elected as president unanimously, party leaders said.

The party election for the president was held in Srinagar today.

The party vice president Abdul Rehman Veeri had proposed the name of Mufti for the president post and was seconded by party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura, a party leader said.

She was nominated as president by the electoral college from Kashmir and Jammu provinces through a voice vote. The election to the party's highest post is held after every three years.

A law graduate from the Kashmir University, Mehbooba Mufti started her political career in 1996 when she was first elected to the State Legislative Assembly from Bijbehara Anantnag on Congress ticket. Three years later, Mehbooba Mufti’s father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, formed the PDP after leaving the Congress.

PDP formed the government in the erstwhile state along with the Congress in 2003 and later, in 2015, with the Bharatiya Janta Party. After the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories, J&K and Ladakhin August 2019, atleast 24 former legislators, ministers, parliament members and senior leaders left the PDP. (UNI)