ANANTNAG: Typically celebrated because the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru appears thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the many poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots on this fairly city cradled by the towering Pir Panjal vary in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Dooru is presently drawing consideration not for its wealthy literary historical past, however for politics, as J&Okay gears up for its first meeting polls in a decade.Among the many ten candidates vying for Dooru meeting constituency is AICC common secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the nominee of Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance.
Mir, a two-time legislator, faces competitors from PDP‘s Mohammad Ashraf Malik and Independents backed by the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Get together. The entry of former separatists as Independents may shake issues up for Mir, who can be a former J&Okay Congress president and minister.
The importance of the battle for Dooru might be gauged by the truth that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi kicked off his celebration’s J&Okay election marketing campaign right here with a rally, whereas celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge introduced 5 ensures for the Union Territory if the alliance is elected to workplace.
Mir has targeted his marketing campaign on native points, saying: “We had permitted a cable automotive mission right here, however the PDP-BJP govt shifted it to Pahalgam.”
NC and Congress have traditionally dominated the constituency, successful six of the seven meeting elections since 1977. Mir gained in 2002 and 2008, whereas the seat went to PDP in 2014 when Syed Farooq Ahmad Andrabi, brother of celebration founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, defeated Mir.
Within the 2023 delimitation course of, Dooru noticed a further 40,000 voters added, bringing the overall to 116,749. This expanded voters might play a significant position in figuring out the ballot consequence.
On this summer season’s LS polls, NC’s Mian Altaf secured victory within the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, which incorporates Dooru meeting section. Altaf defeated PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, gaining almost 30,000 votes in comparison with Mufti’s 9,802 from Dooru.
Political analysts are optimistic, saying the NC-Congress mix stands an excellent probability in absence of outstanding rivals. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen whether or not the NC vote base will shift to Mir.
The constituency votes in first section. What occurs in Dooru won’t keep in Dooru, however felt in distant Delhi.
Dooru is presently drawing consideration not for its wealthy literary historical past, however for politics, as J&Okay gears up for its first meeting polls in a decade.Among the many ten candidates vying for Dooru meeting constituency is AICC common secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the nominee of Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance.
Mir, a two-time legislator, faces competitors from PDP‘s Mohammad Ashraf Malik and Independents backed by the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Get together. The entry of former separatists as Independents may shake issues up for Mir, who can be a former J&Okay Congress president and minister.
The importance of the battle for Dooru might be gauged by the truth that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi kicked off his celebration’s J&Okay election marketing campaign right here with a rally, whereas celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge introduced 5 ensures for the Union Territory if the alliance is elected to workplace.
Mir has targeted his marketing campaign on native points, saying: “We had permitted a cable automotive mission right here, however the PDP-BJP govt shifted it to Pahalgam.”
NC and Congress have traditionally dominated the constituency, successful six of the seven meeting elections since 1977. Mir gained in 2002 and 2008, whereas the seat went to PDP in 2014 when Syed Farooq Ahmad Andrabi, brother of celebration founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, defeated Mir.
Within the 2023 delimitation course of, Dooru noticed a further 40,000 voters added, bringing the overall to 116,749. This expanded voters might play a significant position in figuring out the ballot consequence.
On this summer season’s LS polls, NC’s Mian Altaf secured victory within the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, which incorporates Dooru meeting section. Altaf defeated PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, gaining almost 30,000 votes in comparison with Mufti’s 9,802 from Dooru.
Political analysts are optimistic, saying the NC-Congress mix stands an excellent probability in absence of outstanding rivals. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen whether or not the NC vote base will shift to Mir.
The constituency votes in first section. What occurs in Dooru won’t keep in Dooru, however felt in distant Delhi.
