SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah will fancy his possibilities of getting into Lok Sabha for the fourth time from the distinguished Srinagar Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir as arch-rivals PDP and BJP have fielded political greenhorns towards the stalwart.
Abdullah had misplaced to PDP candidate Tariq Hameed Karra in Srinagar within the 2014 normal elections but won the 2017 bypoll to the constituency defeating Peoples Democratic Party's Nazir Ahmed Khan.
Karra has since joined the Congress, which has determined to not box any candidate towards 83-year-old Abdullah.
The main challenge to Abdullah's bid this time is from PDP's Aga Syed Mohsin, who had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate. The Shia chief had then secured 16,000 votes out of the 3.12 lakh votes polled.
The Congress had no longer fielded a candidate towards Abdullah within the 2017 byelection to Srinagar Lok Sabha seat necessitated by Karra's resignation from Lok Sabha and the PDP in 2016 over the dealing with of the placement in Kashmir by the PDP-BJP coalition executive.
People's Conference led by Sajad Gani Lone is attempting to challenge itself as an alternative choice to the NC and the PDP in regional politics. The birthday celebration, which moved out of the separatist camp in 2009 to return to electoral politics, won the Mayoral elections to Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
People's Conference has fielded businessman Irfan Ansari, another newbie in electoral politics, towards Abdullah.
Ansari, however, has his elder brother — Shia chief and previous minister Imran Ansari — to guide him via. The businessman is confident that he would be capable to connect better with the formative years.
"I represent the younger generation and I believe I am more in touch with the problems and realities faced by today's generation and would be able take on the challenges confronting this generation. I will not only be able to understand them well but also try and find a way to resolve those problems," he stated.
Political observers feel that by fielding a "weak" candidate in Mohsin, the PDP would possibly have conceded the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat to the National Conference president. The other notable candidate within the fray is BJP spokesman Khalid Jehangir, who hasn't ever contested elections sooner than.
His handiest claim to prominence was once his stint as vice chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation, a state PSU, during the PDP-BJP coalition executive within the state.
While Mohsin can be banking on important Shia votes and improve base of the PDP for staging an disillusioned, for BJP's Jehangir, it'll be a difficult initiation into electoral politics of Kashmir which has been ruled by the National Conference for lots of decades.
PDP spokesman Harbaksh Singh stated it could be unsuitable to jot down off Mohsin within the electoral combat. "He had contested 2014 Lok Sabha polls and taken significant number of votes. He is a prominent Shia leader and scholar. Moreover, he has the backing of the biggest political party of the state," Singh stated.
Farooq Abdullah has misplaced an election handiest once in his 42-year political occupation since his debut in electoral politics in 1980.
The three-time former leader minister of Jammu and Kashmir was once first elected as member of Lok Sabha in 1980. However, Abdullah returned to state politics within the wake of failing health of his father and National Conference chief Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in 1981.
He succeeded as leader minister of the state in September 1982 following his father's dying. Farooq Abdullah stayed in state politics until 2002 when he handed over the presidency of National Conference to his son, Omar Abdullah, hoping that he would succeed him as leader minister as well.
However, Omar Abdullah's loss within the 2002 assembly election put paid such hopes because the National Conference determined to sit within the opposition, despite emerging as the single largest birthday celebration.
Farooq Abdullah stayed away from lively politics for several years but made a comeback by first successful Rajya Sabha elections in early 2009 after which getting into Lok Sabha for the second time in May 2009.
His handiest election loss got here in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The notification for elections to Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was once issued on March 20 while the polling can be held on April 18 in the second section of polls.
The Srinagar Lok Sabha seat is unfold over 3 districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal.
It has 12,90,318 citizens who are eligible to cast their votes at 1,716 polling stations to be arrange within the constituency. As many as 26 polling stations can be arrange for migrant citizens of the Lok Sabha constituency together with 21 in Jammu, one in Udhampur and 4 in New Delhi.
Abdullah had misplaced to PDP candidate Tariq Hameed Karra in Srinagar within the 2014 normal elections but won the 2017 bypoll to the constituency defeating Peoples Democratic Party's Nazir Ahmed Khan.
Karra has since joined the Congress, which has determined to not box any candidate towards 83-year-old Abdullah.
The main challenge to Abdullah's bid this time is from PDP's Aga Syed Mohsin, who had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate. The Shia chief had then secured 16,000 votes out of the 3.12 lakh votes polled.
The Congress had no longer fielded a candidate towards Abdullah within the 2017 byelection to Srinagar Lok Sabha seat necessitated by Karra's resignation from Lok Sabha and the PDP in 2016 over the dealing with of the placement in Kashmir by the PDP-BJP coalition executive.
People's Conference led by Sajad Gani Lone is attempting to challenge itself as an alternative choice to the NC and the PDP in regional politics. The birthday celebration, which moved out of the separatist camp in 2009 to return to electoral politics, won the Mayoral elections to Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
People's Conference has fielded businessman Irfan Ansari, another newbie in electoral politics, towards Abdullah.
Ansari, however, has his elder brother — Shia chief and previous minister Imran Ansari — to guide him via. The businessman is confident that he would be capable to connect better with the formative years.
"I represent the younger generation and I believe I am more in touch with the problems and realities faced by today's generation and would be able take on the challenges confronting this generation. I will not only be able to understand them well but also try and find a way to resolve those problems," he stated.
Political observers feel that by fielding a "weak" candidate in Mohsin, the PDP would possibly have conceded the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat to the National Conference president. The other notable candidate within the fray is BJP spokesman Khalid Jehangir, who hasn't ever contested elections sooner than.
His handiest claim to prominence was once his stint as vice chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation, a state PSU, during the PDP-BJP coalition executive within the state.
While Mohsin can be banking on important Shia votes and improve base of the PDP for staging an disillusioned, for BJP's Jehangir, it'll be a difficult initiation into electoral politics of Kashmir which has been ruled by the National Conference for lots of decades.
PDP spokesman Harbaksh Singh stated it could be unsuitable to jot down off Mohsin within the electoral combat. "He had contested 2014 Lok Sabha polls and taken significant number of votes. He is a prominent Shia leader and scholar. Moreover, he has the backing of the biggest political party of the state," Singh stated.
Farooq Abdullah has misplaced an election handiest once in his 42-year political occupation since his debut in electoral politics in 1980.
The three-time former leader minister of Jammu and Kashmir was once first elected as member of Lok Sabha in 1980. However, Abdullah returned to state politics within the wake of failing health of his father and National Conference chief Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in 1981.
He succeeded as leader minister of the state in September 1982 following his father's dying. Farooq Abdullah stayed in state politics until 2002 when he handed over the presidency of National Conference to his son, Omar Abdullah, hoping that he would succeed him as leader minister as well.
However, Omar Abdullah's loss within the 2002 assembly election put paid such hopes because the National Conference determined to sit within the opposition, despite emerging as the single largest birthday celebration.
Farooq Abdullah stayed away from lively politics for several years but made a comeback by first successful Rajya Sabha elections in early 2009 after which getting into Lok Sabha for the second time in May 2009.
His handiest election loss got here in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The notification for elections to Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was once issued on March 20 while the polling can be held on April 18 in the second section of polls.
The Srinagar Lok Sabha seat is unfold over 3 districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal.
It has 12,90,318 citizens who are eligible to cast their votes at 1,716 polling stations to be arrange within the constituency. As many as 26 polling stations can be arrange for migrant citizens of the Lok Sabha constituency together with 21 in Jammu, one in Udhampur and 4 in New Delhi.
Farooq Abdullah faces political greenhorns in prestigious Srinagar Lok Sabha seat
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