Ganderbal outside Srinagar was earlier represented by his father Farooq Abdullah
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will seek election to the state Assembly from Sonwar in Srinagar district and Beerwah in neighbouring Budgam district, instead of Ganderbal, wherefrom he had been elected in 2008.
With the Chief Minister’s decision to walk out on Ganderbal, the Abdullahs’ 37-year-old political tryst with their once-strongest bastion in the Kashmir Valley has come to an end. Ganderbal outside Srinagar was earlier represented by the CM’s father Farooq Abdullah and before him by his grandfather Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah.
The NC has instead nominated Sheikh Ashfaq Jabbar, son of a former senior party leader and minister Sheikh Abdul Jabbar, to contest from his home constituency, Ganderbal.
The Senior Jabbar, a close confident of Sheikh Abdullah, was gunned down by militants during the heyday of insurgency in Kashmir in 1990s.
NC general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, on Friday announced the fourth list of 22 party candidates for the Assembly elections. Ganderbal with 10 other segments will go to the polls in the first phase on November 25.
( Source : dc )
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