The reputation of many veterans is at stake in the first phase of voting in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti will face the challenge of salvaging his political legacy in the elections to be held in South Kashmir and Chenab Valley.
CPI(M) stalwart MY Tarigami, Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti and Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, Sartaj Madani, former MPs Hasnain Masoodi and Nazir Ahmed Laway, Shaukat Ahmed Ganai, Congress national general secretary GA Mir and BJP’s Sofi Yusuf and former Jammu division ministers Sunil Sharma and Shaktiraj Parihar, former MP Dalip Singh Parihar, Shagun Parihar of the Parihar brothers’ family who died in the terror attack, former NC state president Vikar Rasool Wani, former MP Saruri MLC Firdous Tak, DDC president Pooja Thakur, former minister Abdul Majeed Wani and Najeeb Suhrawardy were the key faces.
In 2014, the lotus blossomed for the first time in Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar in the Chenab Valley and repeating it a decade later remains a challenge for the BJP.
The contest in South Kashmir this time is getting interesting with independents associated with the Awami Yitzhak Party and the Congress Party. The Congress will face the challenge of repeating its past performance along with the regional parties NC-PDP.
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