Following failed talks with DPAP chief Ghulam Nabi Azad for a joint contest of the Lok Sabha election, the Apni Get together, led by Altaf Bukhari, on Thursday introduced to discipline Mohammad Ashraf Mir from Srinagar parliamentary seat and Zafar Iqbal Manhas from Anantnag-Rajouri.
Each the leaders have vote financial institution restricted to some pockets in Srinagar and south Kashmir.
The get together remained silent on its candidate in Baramulla constituency the place it’s more likely to assist Peoples Convention’s Sajad Lone.
Addressing a press convention in Srinagar, Apni Get together chief Mohammad Dilawar Mir stated: “We have now not but determined concerning the Baramulla seat,” he stated.
Manhas, a Pahari author, hails from south Kashmir’s Shopian, which was earlier a part of Anantnag constituency however after delimitation is now a part of Srinagar seat.
He was launched to politics by Peoples Democratic Get together when he was appointed as a member of the legislative council within the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir Meeting. He give up the get together in 2020 and joined Apni Get together.
The candidature of Manhas in Anantnag has added to the complexity as he, too, would vie for the Pahari vote. His candidature is being seen as extra of a vote cutter than a critical candidate.
Mir, alternatively, rose to prominence when he defeated Nationwide Convention’s Omar Abdullah within the 2009 Meeting polls from Srinagar’s Sonawar constituency as a PDP candidate. He was a minister within the PDP-BJP authorities.
Mir, too, has a small vote financial institution restricted to part of Srinagar metropolis and has little attraction past.
