Demands action against leaders for fielding proxy candidates in DDC polls
Gul Owais
Srinagar, Jan 18: Peoples Conference led by Sajad Gani Lone held a crucial party meeting here on Monday without discussing whether the party should pull out from the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) or not.
Sources told Precious Kashmir that a meeting chaired by the party chairman Sajad Gani Lone was attended by all the party leaders, who they said, were anguished over alliance partners fielding proxy candidates in the recently held District Development Council elections.
Peoples Conference is a part of PAGD—an amalgam of regional parties—that won 110 seats in DDC polls.
Reliable sources said that no discussion was held on whether the party would stay with the PAGD or not, but the issue of proxies fielded by some parties was discussed threadbare.
“It was put forth by the participants that no action was taken against the parties who had fielded the proxy candidates,” they said.
One of the leaders, who attended the meeting, said that he has no authority to talk about it, saying that party’s general secretary Imran Raza Ansari has been given mandate to talk to the media in this regard. “He (Imran Raza Ansari) would likely issue a press statement or address the media in this regard,” he said.
However, the other leaders, who were part of the meeting, stated that the leaders discussed the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the recently concluded DDC elections.
Notably, this was the first meeting of PC after the two of its senior leaders, Imran Raza Ansari and Abdul Gani Vakil raised a red flag and asked Sajad Lone publically to snap ties with the Gupkar Alliance.
It’s in place to mention here that Ansari and Vakil have been claiming that alliance partners “backstabbed” their party by fielding proxy candidates during the DDC polls. But PC chairman, Sajad Gani Lone, has been insisting that the chapter of the proxy candidates should be closed.
PAGD remains intact, PC skips discussion on pullout
