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| Congress wants to field Haider from Kishtwar constituency | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
kishtwar, Oct 12: Majority of Congress party leaders in Kishtwar district have come out to support veteran party leader Sheikh Ghulam Haider and demanded party mandate for him in 2014 Assembly election.
The decision of projecting Sheikh as consensus party candidate from Kishtwar constituency was taken during a meeting in Jammu a few days ago. Sheikh lost 2002 election against Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo with narrow margin of votes.
The leaders feel that the veteran leader is the only option for the Congress party to regain its glory in the constituency. Kishtwar constituency which never wins by the Congress party after Ghulam Rasool Arman defeated NC stalwart Bashir Ahmed Kitchloo in 1985. The Congress party in Kishtwar suffered a massive political dent to its vote bank in 2008 election as Congress candidate Thakur Jughal Bhandari managed less than 2000 votes as compared to nearly 15000 votes in 2002 elections.
During the Jammu meeting, several Congress leaders came in support of Sheikh with the belief that dream of winning Kishtwar seat after 1985 elections will become a reality only if all the Congress party leaders supports Sheikh Ghulam Haider as among the six Assembly seats in erstwhile Doda district, five are represented by the Congress party including Inderwal seat of Kishtwar district which is represented by Ghulam Mohammad Saroori from last two elections. Congress leaders from Kishtwar also seek the support of Ghulam Mohammad Saroori who has a strong hold in the party leadership.
Mahinder Singh Parihar, Noor Hussain, Ravi Kumar Shan, Satish Kumar, Ab Qayoom, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Ghulam Mustafa Azad and others strongly wanted Ghulam Haider Sheikh's mandate back for the 2014 election and termed him as only hope for the lovers of Congress to regain the seat back which they never won since 1985.
They also decided to approach Congress party High Command including UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, All India Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and former Chief Minister J&K and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad with the request to give the mandate to Haider Sheikh.
The sources within the Congress party said that party High Command is ready to give mandate to Haider subject to clearance from Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. As per party sources, party High Command has authorized Azad to select the party candidates from his area.
It is pertinent to mention here that MLA Kishtwar Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo is considered close to Ghulam Nabi Azad. He has been accused of helping Kichloo. |
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