Former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be contesting the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir, his party announced on Sunday.
Azad will be fighting the election as the candidate of his Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), the party he floated in 2022 after quitting the Congress, ending his nearly 50-years-long association with the party.
"Chairman DPAP, Ghulam Nabi Azad sahib, will be contesting from the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. This decision was made in today's DPAP working committee meeting," Chief Spokesperson of the party Salman Nizami said on X.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Azad lost from Udhampur constituency as a Congress candidate to BJP leader Jitendra Singh. The party, this year, fielded former state minister GM Saroori from Udhampur.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, which is a part of the opposition alliance INDIA bloc, has named veteran leader Mian Altaf Ahmad as the party's candidate for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat.
The National Conference's Hasnain Masoodi is the sitting MP from the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency.
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