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| …and turncoat politics begins | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 30: Enthusiastic parties getting quantitatively oversized by the time are now finding it difficult to manage the cadres as a poll-time favourite politics of turncoats has begin with a bang.
As poll dates draw near, overconfidence is marring prospects of the parties even as the ambitious aspirants having little to do with ideologies are apparently standing at gain. Sitting Member of Legislative Council and senior National Conference leader Bashir Ahmed Naz has quit the party and got Congress ticket to contest from election from Poonch. Former Minister and Peoples Democratic Party leader Mohammad Sharif Tariq is all set to bid adieu to the party and seek election from Rajouri as independent candidate. Another PDP leader from Mendhar Nisar Ahmed Khan was exposed when the Congress screening committee considered his name for ticket.
Closer in the capital, BJP’s strategist, state vice president and spokesman Prof Hari Om has said his final good bye to the party. Last week Bahujan Samaj Party’s expelled state president Yash Pal Bhagat joined National Conference and was declared as party’s first nominee ever in the state.
Senior Congress leader Dharam Pal Sharma this morning did the formality of announcing candidature of National Conference dissident Bashir Ahmed Naz, as party’s nominee from Poonch-Haveli constituency. Naz was the hope of National Conference in Poonch but he could not abide the party decision of giving mandate to Ajaz Jaan who contested and lost December 2007 by-elections from Poonch.
This is second time when Naz resigned from the National Conference. After winning 1987 elections as independent candidate Naz had later joined the National Conference. However, on being denied ticket in 1996 he contested elections as independent candidate but lost to the National Conference nominee. Little later he joined the Bharitya Janta Party but returned to National Conference on the eve of 2002 assembly elections. The party still did not consider him for ticket and was instead decorated with a seat in the Upper House of legislature. This time on being denied ticket he has jumped into Congress bandwagon.
In the neighbouring Mendhar constituency, Nisar Ahmed Khan was expecting PDP ticket but on negative indications he started cozying up to the Congress for final disappointment. The PDP has three Muslim-Rajput men in Mendhar and the party apparently could not manage them. One of them Murtaza Khan was made MLC last year, Rafiq Khan has been given ticket to contest ensuing elections and Nisar was left with no option but to quit.
In Rajouri, the former legislator Mohammad Sharif Tariq was a potential candidate for the National Conference in 2002 but the party decided to field a little known Mohammad Aslam Khan. Though Aslam won but Tariq still stood better chances of winning. He decided against winning elections independently but few months later joined the Peoples Democratic Party.
This time again Tariq was one of the potential contenders to challenge any heavyweight from other parties but the PDP preferred Tasaduq Hussain over him. Tariq has almost launched his campaign in Rajouri and is all set to contest the election as independent candidate.
Meanwhile, a total of 25 nomination papers have been secured by the prospective candidates from Returning Officers of Nowshera, Darhal, Rajouri and Kalakote assembly segments in Rajouri district, where elections are scheduled to be held on November 23 in the second phase.
Of these 2 nomination papers have been obtained from the Returning officer of Nowshera while 8, 13 and 2 nomination papers have been secured from the ROs of Darhal, Rajouri and Kalakote respectively.
The last date for obtaining and filling nomination papers in the district is November 5 and the papers will be scrutinized on November 6. |
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