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| 13 in fray in North Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar: As no candidate withdrew his nomination papers, 13 candidates have been left in fray for the north Kashmir parliamentary constituency, going to polls on the last round of the staggered five phased polls in the state.
Official sources said that on the last date for withdrawal of nominations on Monday, no candidate withdrew his candidature from the office of Deputy Commissioner, Baramulla, Lateef-ul-Zaman Deva, who is also the returning officer for the segment.
In all, 23 candidates including chairman of his faction of Peoples Conference, Sajad Gani Lone, National Conference (NC) nominee Shareef-ud-din Sharik and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Mohammad Dilawar Mir had filed the nomination papers for the constituency.
Reports said that the election authorities had rejected the candidature of ten candidates after scrutiny.
Baramulla Parliamentary constituency, set to go to polls on May 13, has a total electorate of 10, 54,086, which includes 1,627 service electors. Out of the total registered voters, 5,49,778 are male and 5,04,308 female who will exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha Elections 2009.
For the constituencies, there are 1946 polling booths spread over fifteen Assembly Segments including Karnah, Kupwara, Lolab, Handwara, Langate, Uri, Rafiabad, Sopore, Sangrama, Baramulla, Gulmarg, Pattan, Gurez, Bandipora, Sonawari.
According to the political pundits, the Baramulla constituency is in for an intriguing battle among three candidates including Sajjad Lone, chairman of People’s Conference faction who broke away from the pro-freedom camp recently. The other two include People’s Democratic Party candidate Mohammad Dilawar Mir and Sharief-u-din Sharik of the ruling National Conference.
The constituency has been predominantly held by National Conference candidates after the first Lok sabha election in 1967.
In 1967 and 1971 midterm elections, Baramulla Parliamentary constituency was represented by Syed Ahmad Aga of the Congress. In 1977 elections, the seat was won by Abdul Ahad of the National Conference while as in the midterm 1980 election, Mubarak Shah of NC emerged as victorious. In 1984 and 1989, the seat was won by Professor Saifuddin Soz on National Conference ticket while in 1996 the seat went to Ghulam Rasool Kar of congress while as in 1998 the seat was wrested by Professor Saif-ud-din Soz of NC while the constituency was represented by Abdul Rashid Shaheen of the National Conference since 1999.
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