Fayaz Bukhari
SRINAGAR, Feb 10: The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) candidates were elected chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of District Development Councils (DDCs) in Ganderbal and Pulwama districts today.
PDP candidate Syed Bari Andrabi was elected as chairperson of the DDC of Pulwama while Mukhtar Bandh (NC) has been elected as vice chairman. Bari got 9 votes and his rival and Independent candidate Javed Rahim Bhat got 4 votes.
NC candidate Bandh who was elected vice-chairperson secured 9 votes and Minha Lateef who won on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Kakapora secured four votes.
The PAGD win was certain as they had majority DDC members in the district with PDP having 7 DDC members, NC 2, BJP 1 and Independents 4.