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SRINAGAR:  After hectic deliberations and clearance from party president Sonia Gandhi, Congress released the list of 69 candidates today. The party has already released first list of 15 candidates for 87-member J&K Assembly, elections for which will be held in five phases beginning November 25.

Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand - Chhamb, Jammu,  

Raman Bhalla - Gandhi Nagar,  Jammu,

Taj Mohiuddin - Uri,

Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed - Kokernag

G A Mir - Dooru in South kashmir.

Sham Lal Sharma, - Akhnoor in Jammu district.

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The party fielded a Kashmiri Pandit woman, Khem Lata Wakhloo from Sonawar constituency in Srinagar. She will be contesting against ruling National Conference working president and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

73-year-old Khemlata Wakhloo was kidnapped by militants in September 1991. She remained in the militant custody for about two months and was later released by her abductors.

She has unsuccessfully contested from Sonawar constituency as Congress candidates in 2002 and 2008 Assembly polls and lost on both the occasions.

In 2008 polls, she had bagged 6301 votes as against 6924 by PDP’s Ghulam Qadir Pardesi and 7018 votes by NC’s Farooq Abdullah. Farooq had won the seat and after his election to Lok Sabha in 2009, he vacated the seat. In the bye-poll NC’s Mohammad Yasin Shah won the elections from the constituency as Congress did not put its candidate as per seat-sharing agreement with NC.

Omar has decided not to contest from Abdullah family’s traditional Ganderbal seat. He will be contesting from two seats – Sonawar in Srinagar and Beerwah in central Kashmir.

From Beerwah seat, Congress has fielded Nazir Ahmad Khan son of former PDP leader Sarfaraz Ahmad Khan. He had been the runner up in the last Assembly elections from the seat, which was won by PDP’s Shafi Ahmad Wani.

Congress party’s national spokesperson, Salman Anees Soz, will be making his electoral debut and contesting from Baramulla seat in North Kashmir.

Soz, son of J&K Pradesh Congress Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, will be facing tough battle from PDP’s candidate. PDP’s Muzaffar Hussain Baig, who is now MP, had won the Assembly election from Baramulla seat in 2002 and 2008 polls.

Congress also gave ticket to one of its tainted legislator and former Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan from Rajouri seat in Jammu province.

Khan, who is the sitting MLA from the constituency, is facing a case in J&K High Court after a woman doctor accused him of trying to molest her inside his official chamber early this year.

The party also gave ticket to another tainted former minister and Kashmiri Pandit, Raman Matoo from Habbal Kadal constituency in Srinagar.

Matoo had won the seat in 2002 polls and was minister in PDP-Congress coalition government. He was arrested after his name figures in infamous sex scandal case in the Valley. However, his name alongwith other accused was later cleared.

BJP has also named a Kashmiri Pandit candidate from Habba Kadal constituency, where there are over 20,000 Kashmiri Pandit migrant voters.

Congress has also fielded former separatist leader-turned-mainstream leader Mohammad Yaqbool Vakil from Srinagar’s Khanyar seat. 

The party has not left any seats for CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami and independent MLA Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen in Kulgam , South Kashmir and Khan Sahib in central Kashmir respectively. Both Tarigami and Yaseen were having friendly relationship with Congress and the party had given indications that it may leave seats for them.

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