NATIONAL CONFERENCE WORKERS DONT WANT OMAR For Ganderbal : NC Activists ‘Propose’ Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar Instead of Omar Abdullah. As the third list of National Conference is coming to fore after August 15 with the name of chief minister Omar Abdullah to figure in it, senior NC leaders have proposed nomination of Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar as the party candidate from NC’s strong bastion Ganderbal. Sources said that since Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is dismayed over party’s performance in the assembly segment of Ganderbal and has own much reluctance in contesting from the turf, hectic deliberations are going on within the National Conference wherein name of Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar is strongly being recommended. Son of late Sheikh Abdul Jabbar, a known political activist and associate of NC founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Jabbar junior joined the party along with hundreds of his supporters in August last year. Before contesting 2008 elections against NC as a Congress candidate from Ganderbal constituency, Jabbar junior served JKP as sub-inspector. He had secured above 5000 votes in 2008. Had his votes gone in favour of then PDP candidate, Qazi Mohammad Afzal, Omar could have lost the 2008 elections as well to Qazi, who had defeated him from the same constituency in 2002 elections. Jabbar before leaving Congress last year got angered with Congress as he was not considered for the MLC’s slot when the term of the then Congress MLC from Ganderbal Ali Mohammad Bhat had ended.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:07:54 +0000
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