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PDP names two candidates for Rajya Sabha polls
The PDP Friday named two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir scheduled to be held Feb 7.
Nazir
Ahmed Laway and Fayaz Ahmed are the two candidates, Peoples Democratic
Party chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar said here Friday.
Both the candidates had lost last year's assembly elections.
Laway
was defeated by Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami of the Communist Party of
India-Marxist from Kulgam assembly seat and Fayaz Ahmed was defeated
from Kupwara seat by Bashir Ahmad of the People's Conference.
Both
the candidates were nominated unanimously by the PDP's political
affairs committee because of their "good performance" in the assembly
elections although they did not win, he said.
The four seats were
held by Ghulam Nabi Azad and Saifuddin Soz of the Congress and Ghulam
Nabi Ratanpuri and Muhammad Shafi Uri of the National Conference.