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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: Even as the Urban Local Body polls are round the corner, the Peoples Democratic Party is looking for fresh faces to contest the elections for the PDP through an online survey, which has fetched the party around 1,000 applications in the recent past.
The PDP, which had formally not contested the ULB elections in 2018 looks ahead to contest the polls this time mainly through selection of the new faces.
The sources said the party has started online survey for the youth faces through a form, which asks them a number of questions. As per the sources till now, the party has received over around 1,000 online applications.
The sources said the party looks ahead to float mainly the “young and educated” faces for the polls so as to give a give “a fresh lease of life to the party.” The PDP headed by Mehbooba Mufti had suffered major loss after the collapse of its government in alliance with the Bharatiya Janta Party in 2018.
Most of the senior politicians had left the party subsequently. While some of them joined the rival parties, one of them Syed Altaf Bukhari had floated his own party, the JK Apni Party. Others had mainly joined the Peoples Conference led by Sajad Lone.
It was reliably learnt that Mehbooba Mufti is focused on the selection of new youth faces for the ULB and that recently a meeting was held in this regard.
Sources said after the meeting the PDP leadership was assigned the task to explore new faces. A source said interaction with such new faces is already underway.
While both the PDP and the National Conference had not formally contested the ULB polls the last time, the two parties were accused of floating proxy candidates.
In case of the NC, most such faces who had won the elections had subsequently joined the party in formal terms.
The Early Times was the first newspaper to report that New Delhi is keen to hold the ULB polls in the autumn of this year and that Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his recent visit to J&K had discussed the same.
The regional parties have geared up its preparations since the Early Times broke the story. |
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