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| NC tightens belt for battle, to announce candidates soon | | Assembly elections | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 5: Alerting the party ranks and triggering competition among aspirants, the opposition National Conference today announced to finalize its nominees for assembly elections in next few weeks irrespective of the fact whether elections are held earlier or on schedule.
"A timely announcement of the candidates will ensure a better preparation for the elections as everybody will be aware of the task", said former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah who is now actively taking command of the National Conference in its major organizational affairs. He said, last minute announcements about the candidature leaves very little time for full preparation and also the dissenting elements who are ignored can not be controlled in a short time.
Farooq also threw another spanner which may upset the applecart of many veterans of the party. He said that the party will be launching new faces and has also decided to filed young candidates in the assembly elections. Senior party leaders Abdul Rahim Rather, Ali Mohammad Sagar and Mohammad Shafi Uri were sitting by his side at the party headquarters in Srinagar on the occasion of birth anniversary of former Chief Minister and National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
"NC will not wait for the announcement of elections to the state assembly and would be shortly announcing the list of the candidates for the elections," he said adding the party president Omar Abdullah and General Secretary Sheikh Nazir ahmed besides himself would finalize the list of candidates.
Abdullah indicated that most of the candidates would be young saying we will try to give party mandate to honest and dedicated workers but most of them would be young who can climb mountains and have sincerity to protect the party flag.
"This is being done to test the party workers. If anybody wants to leave the party he is welcome before the elections," he said
Earlier in his speech, Farooq demanded immediate announcement of panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir saying the situation has improved in the state. He said his party conducted the panchayat elections in the state in extreme conditions in 2002.
"Now the situation has improved and the panchayat polls should be held immediately to strengthen the democratic institutions at the grassroots level," he said. |
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