Rashid bows out to khurshid shah meter

Abdul Rashid Malik vs Khurshid Ahmed Shah & on 17 August, 2021

Massive mandates to losing deposits, big names meet contrasting fates in J&K polls

With the dust settling on the big winner and losers in the assembly elections, much can be read into the performance of four names who were being keenly watched in the run-up – Iltija Mufti and Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Engineer Abdul Rashid’s brother and Awami Ittehad Party’s Langate candidate Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh, and Aijaz Guru, the brother of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

Iltija, the 36-year-old daughter of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, lost her electoral debut from the bastion of Srigufwara-Bijbehara that had been in the family since 1996.

Mehbooba had chosen not to contest the election.

Having emerged onto the scene after her mother’s detention by the central government ahead of the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, Iltija was pitted against only two candidates — National Conference’s (NC) Bashir Ahmad Ve Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Erupts In Chaos Over Article 370 ...

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