Ghulam Nabi Azad opts out of contest from prestigious Anantnag LS seat
This would have been the first election from his own party that Azad would have fought after quitting the Congress.
This would have been the first election from his own party that Azad would have fought after quitting the Congress.
Omar and Azad exchanged barbs as both are currently campaigning in the Chenab Valley region consisting of the Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts of the Jammu division.
Azad said that while he had several reasons for contesting the Lok Sabha elections, safeguarding the jobs and land of the people of Jammu and Kashmir was his top priority.
Candidature of Azad was announced on Tuesday by a senior DPAP leader, Taj Mohiuddin in Srinagar.
Azad has already announced his trusted lieutenant GM Saroori as the DPAP candidate in Udhampur against Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh.
Addressing a rally in North Kashmir's Gurez, the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) said elections are the only panacea for all the ills of the Union territory.
Those who deserted the DAP include Nizamuddin Khatana, Gulzar Ahmad Khatana whom AICC leadership welcomed at the party office.
Azad said that life is more important than employment and the government should transfer Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu.
These three persons were among the first to quit Congress and join Azad's party.
Months after exiting the decades-long association with the Congress party, Azad said that he was not against its policy of secularism, but its weak party system.