PC’s Exit Leaves PAGD Two Down In DDC Politics
SRINAGAR: With Peoples Conference (PC) exiting the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the politics in north Kashmir’s twin districts of Baramulla and Kupwara is heating up as PC had bagged the highest seats for the alliance in recently conducted District Development Council (DDC) elections.
The party has five seats in its bastion of Kupwara district out of 14 while the PAGD has four. Among remaining six seats, the independents have three while the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party has won on a single seat.
In the neighbouring Baramulla district, the PAGD had won seven seats till PC parted ways with the alliance, leaving the amalgam with just four seats. The PC has three seats while the JKAP and Congress have two seats each. The independent candidates have won on three seats in the district with Safina Beigh being one among them. She is considered to be closer to PC through her husband Muzaffar Beigh’s past associat