Yawar Hussain
Gupkar Declaration Signatories addressing a joint press conference after meeting at National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah’s residence on Thursday, October 15, 2020. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
The exit of the People’s Conference has seemingly left the PAGD adrift. The five-party alliance including big players like National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party have not met for nearly two months now.
Seemingly, the PAGD is disinterested in the elections to the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons which they have lost in six out of 13 where they had the mandate when results were declared on December 22 last year. The alliance also hasn’t appointed a new official spokesperson since Sajad Gani Lone left.
Doda, Poonch Elects A Father And A Daughter Each To DDC
SRINAGAR: In an interesting outcome of the results, two districts have ejected a daughter and a father each. In Poonch, it is a Muslim father and daughter that won from two different segments in the district for congress. BJP repeated the same but in Doda.
DDC Members from Doda Thakur Yudvir Singh and his daughter Jaya Rani
Reports said that Thakur Yudvir Singh who won the DDC election from Bhaderwah West constituency along with his daughter Jaya Rani who won from Bhagwah constituency took the oath of office in the presence of their other family members who were sitting in the VIP gallery of the community hall Doda.