While Srinagar constituency will go to polls on April 9, polling in Anantnag will be held on April 12. The Anantnag constituency had fallen vacant after Mehbooba Mufti became the chief minister last year. Nazir Ahmad Khan had been announced as the party’s candidate from Srinagar after senior leader and one of the PDP founders, Tariq Hameed Karra, left the party in protest after protracted violence in 2016 left at least 90 people dead in the Kashmir Valley. The NC upped its ante the day the BJP announced that Adityanath would be UP chief minister. Former CM Omar Abdullah hit out at PDP president Mehbooba, expressing concern and anguish over the UP CM’s name. “Congratulations @MehboobaMufti. Your friends & allies have chosen a man who called for the dead bodies of Muslim women to be raped as CM,” Abdullah wrote on Twitter. “Do you still want to try and fool the people of Kashmir, especially those who trusted you in 2014, that a new Vajpayee-like era is starting,” he ...
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