Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections: Congress Releases List Of 6 Candidates

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a fresh list of candidates, which include the names of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief Tariq Hameed Karra and BJP J&K State president Ravinder Raina.

The Congress cleared the names of six more candidates for the Assembly segments going to polls in the second phase of elections in J&K on September 25. Mr. Karra has been fielded from Central-Shalteng seat as a joint candidate of the NC-Congress alliance as per the pre-poll seat arrangement. The five other candidates are Mumtaz Khan from Reasi, Bhupendra Jamwal from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, Iftikhar Ahmad from Rajouri (a Schedule Tribe seat), Shabir Ahmad Khan from Thanamandi (ST seat) and Muhammad Shahnawaz Choudhary from Surankote (ST seat).

The BJP also announced six more candidates for the Assembly seats going for voting in the second phase. Mr. Raina will contest from Nowshera seat. The BJP also fielded Engineer Aijaz Hussain from Srinagar’s Lal Chowk constituency.