Anantnag (CNI): National Conference candidate for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat Mian Altaf Ahmed on Monday said he is in a “comfortable situation” as he is among the contenders on both sides of the Pir Panjal range. are the most acceptable candidates.

 

“I am in a comfortable situation and I think I am acceptable on both sides – Anantnag-Kulgam as well as Rajouri-Poonch. I may be wrong, but I think both the other parties contesting here sides are not so acceptable,” Ahmed told reporters here during the election campaign.

 

Following the delimitation exercise carried out after the reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir, the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat was merged with the erstwhile South Kashmir constituency of Anantnag and Kulgam districts and Rajouri and Poonch districts of the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency has been made.

 

The National Conference (NC) leader, who hails from Kangan assembly constituency in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, rejected suggestions that any of the contesting candidates were outsiders.

 

“I respect all my opponents. (Ghulam Nabi) Azad is contesting from here. It is not that he is making a mistake. He has the right to contest. He has also contested from Maharashtra my father (Mian Bashir Ahmad) contested from Darhal (Rajouri) and won from there.

 

“A former chief minister (Mufti Muhammad Saeed), whom I respect, contested from UP while Mehbooba Mufti herself contested from Wachi (Shopian). I don’t want to comment on these issues,” Ahmed said. listing two other Lok Sabha members who represented the South Kashmir constituency but did not belong here.

 

The NC candidate said his focus would be on reversing the decisions taken by the Center in August 2019 by abrogating Article 370 and cutting a whole state into two Union Territories.

 

I will try to reach every block and tehsil of the constituency. I will listen to people about their problems but the main focus will be on the mistakes made after August 2019, which is the uncertainty, the reduction of an entire state into two Union Territories people did not accept this decision.

 

“In terms of development, I will replicate in the parliamentary constituency what I have done in my assembly constituency (Kangan). I have listened to the poor, the youth and the unemployed as a result of which people would vote for me time after time.

 

But all this is possible only when the political uncertainty ends. You can see this uncertainty in Ladakh and Jammu while it is also in Kashmir. (CNI)