NC yet indecisive over Ganderbal:Party again defers 4th list of candidates
Nominations to be announced within three days: Nasir
5 Dariya News (Yawar Shafi)
Srinagar 24-Aug-2014
The ruling national conference for the second time has to defer the 4th and the final list of its party candidates for the upcoming elections with the chief minister Omar Abdullah yet to decide over contesting from Ganderbal besides Sonawar assembly segment.Party’s Provincial President Kashmir Nasir Aslam Wani told KNS that the list of the candidates will be released within three days and the meeting for the same is yet to be held.Nasir while confirming that the NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah is out of station at present said that the 4th list will be mostly likely the final one from the party. “Dr Sahib (Farooq Abdullah) had to leave for health check up. The list will be released within three days and the meeting of the NC leadership is yet to be held.”
Meanwhile, if sources are to be believed, Omar is again reluctant in contesting from central Kashmir’s Ganderbal area with the party leadership and activists from Ganderbal constituency urging Omar to contest from the bastion of his grandfather.Omar however is yet to take final call over the issue making the NC leadership to defer the issuance of final list of the party.Sources revealed to KNS that the vital meet over the issue will be held within two days with party’s general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Nasir Aslam Wani besides several others will take part in the meeting.Sources also revealed that Omar has expressed concern over some six assembly constituencies of North and South Kashmir wherein the tickets have already been given to the candidates by the party in the earlier issued lists.Omar has reportedly maintained that the nomination of the candidates of the six assembly segments be looked into again and the deliberations are needed to be held once again so that no damage to the party is caused due to any nomination during the upcoming elections. (KNS)