Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir): People’s Democratic Party candidate for the Anantnag constituency, Mehboob Beg, filed his nominations for the Assembly elections on August 23 scheduled to start in the third week of September.
Speaking with ANI on August 23, Baig, who is a senior PDP leader said, “PDP under the leadership of Mehboba Mufti continuously raised the issues of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
He also said that the INDIA Alliance is a “national-level concept.”
He said that the special status was given to Jammu and Kashmir when the Congress was in power at the Centre.
“If they (Congress) have courage, they should write in their manifesto, that they will give special status, but they cannot do this …,” he added.
He appreciated the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi for standing with the minorities.
“I salute Rahul Gandhi for raising the voice of minorities…,” the PDP leader added.
Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1. The results will be announced on October 4.
Ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, the Congress and the National Conference announced a pre-poll alliance and said that “they have reached a consensus on most of the seats.”
The Congress and the NC had fought the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with each other. The National Conference won two seats – Anantnag and Srinagar. The Congress could not win any seat.
24 Assembly seats will go to polls in the first phase on September 18.
The seats, that will go to polls in the first phase, are Pampore, Tral, Pulwama, Rajpora, Zainapora, Shopian, D H Pora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, Kokernag (ST), Anantnag West, Anantnag, Srigufwara-Bijbehara, Shangus-Anantnag East, Pahalgam, Inderwal, Kishtwar, Padder-Nagseni, Bhadarwah, Doda, Doda West, Ramban, and Banihal.
A total of 90 assembly constituencies will go to the polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The last assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir was held in 2014. The counting will take place on October 4.