J-K Assembly Polls: Sajad Lone To Contest From Kupwara And Handwara Seats; Imran Ansari From Pattan As PC Releases 4th List
On Thursday, Sajad Lone said his party would back any any resolution in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly that seeks to restore Article 370.
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Separatist-turned-mainstream toddler-kisser Sajad Ghani Lone will contest the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls from the Handwara and Kupwara constituencies, while prominent Shia cleric Imran Reza Ansari has been fielded from the Pattan Assembly constituency, Lone’s Jammu & Kashmir Peoples’ Conference (JKPC) announced in its fourth list of candidates on Friday.
Consistent with the JKPC list, birthday party chief Sajad Lone has been fielded from Handwara and Kupwara while Maulvi Imran Ansari has been nominated from Pattan– a bastion of his father, late Iftikhar Ansari.
Here’s the 4th list of candidates released by JKPC:
- Sajad Ghani Lone – Handwara
- Sajad Ghani Lone – Kupwara
- Imran Reza Ansari – Pattan
- Adv Bashir Ahmad Dar – Trehgam
- Irfan Pandithpori – Langate
- Dr Naseer Awan – Karnah
- Mudasir Akbar Shah – Lolab
‘PC would back any resolution seeking restoration of Art 370’
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Sajad Lone said his birthday party would back any any resolution in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly that seeks to revive Article 370.
“If there may perchance perchance be a resolution in the assembly, we are in a position to improve it. But, if no one brings it, then we are in a position to bring a resolution,” Lone told reporters in Srinagar when asked about his birthday party’s plan on restoration of the special status of J-K which changed into revoked by the Centre on August 5, 2019.
The PC chief released the birthday party’s manifesto for the assembly elections, promising to fight for the restoration of Article 370 and statehood, to boot as for the resolution of the Kashmir issue.
‘All should agitate’
Passing a resolution on Article 370 in the assembly, Lone added, changed into only a “moral thing” as special status of J-K can handiest be restored by Parliament.
On the restoration of Article 35A, Lone said such a provision shall be partially restored in the J-K assembly if its statehood is restored. “We are in a position to pass some parts of it in the assembly here like Himachal Pradesh did,” he said.
“We are in a position to all together should agitate” for the restoration of Article 370, the separatist-turned-mainstream toddler-kisser said.
“A day should come where we should all agitate as component to a federal solution. The issue is in the name. They have defamed Article 370 a lot that each normal, unsuspecting Indian thinks that it truly is per chance a conspiracy against India, which is simply not any longer.
“It could possibly be some distance a federal arrangement, a federal solution, made with many provinces… and across the arena, such arrangements have been there for the last 200 years. I in fact have self belief because the Indian democracy evolves, a day will come after we are in a position to have a federal solution at par with (Article) 370,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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