Srinagar, June 1: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday filed her nomination papers for Anantnag meeting constituency by-elections in south Kashmir, which had fallen vacant after the demise of her father after which Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed.
Mehbooba Mufti, who has by no means misplaced an meeting election in her 26-year-long political profession, was accompanied by her senior Peoples Democratic Party leaders.
Mehbooba Mufti needs to be elected to both home of the state’s bicameral legislature inside six months of assuming the workplace of the chief minister of the state.
The opposition National Conference has fielded Iftikhar Hussain Misgar and the Congress has given the mandate to Hilal Ahmad Shah from the PDP‘s south Kashmir bastion.
Mufti Muhammad Sayeed defeated his nearest rival Misgar in 2014 state meeting elections by 6,000 votes whereas Shah of the Congress completed third in that contest.
Unbiased MLA from north Kashmir Langate meeting constituency, Engineer Rashid has additionally stated he’ll stand towards the state chief minister for the Anantnag by-polls.
Mehbooba Mufti presently represents the south Kashmir Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency within the Lok Sabha.
She has previously received meeting elections thrice, in 1996 from Bijbehara, in 2002 from Pahalgam and in 2008 from Wachi meeting constituencies.
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