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| Voters to decide fate of two veterans | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 6: The ongoing election is to decide the future of two surviving members of the state's constituent Assembly set up in 1951. They are Ghulam Rasool Kar and Abdul Aziz Zargar, who are in the poll fray. The two have been signatories to the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir adopted in 1957.
While Ghulam Rasool Kar, the senior most leader is in the fray in Sopore constituency in north Kashmir, as an independent candidate, after the Congress denied mandate to him, Zargar is the PDP candidate from Noorabad constituency in south Kashmir.
Zargar has been a member of the Assembly right from 1964. He represented the Devsar seat in the House between 1954 and 1966.Then he shifted to Noorabad constituency from where he was elected in 1967, 1972 and 1987 as a Congress candidate. He lost to the National candidate, Sakina Itoo in 1996 but regained the seat in 2002 as a PDP candidate.
Zargar has had a long stint as parliamentary secretary, junior minister, cabinet minister He was also installed as Director National Fertilizers in 1985, Director Waqf Council, Government of India, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Industries Ltd and member of the Kashmir University Senate. He has remained closely associated with Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and when he formed the PDP, Zargar was one of the founding members.
Ghulam Rasool Kar has contested successfully Assembly election from Rafiabad constituency in 1957, 1962 and 1967.Then he tried his luck from his home constituency in Sopore but failed to humble down Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads now the Tehrik Hurriyat Conference. Kar, however, won the Lok Sabha election from Baramulla constituency in 1996 with a thumping majority of votes.
Out of the 75 member-constituent Assembly Kar and Zargar are the only surviving political leaders. The towering personalities who were members of the constituent Assembly including Sheikh Abdullah, Maulana Masoodi, Mirza Afzal Beg, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, G. M. Sadiq, D. P. Dhar are not alive. Hence the ongoing election may decide the future of the two political leaders have been on the centre stage of state's politics since 1950. |
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