Cong rebel withdraws nomination
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Poonch, November 3
In a positive development for the Congress party, one of the Congress “rebel” and its former district secretary for Poonch, Muhammad Taj Mir, brother of Congress MLA in the previous Assembly, Jehangir Mir, who had secured nomination form to contest the elections from Poonch as an independent candidate, today withdrew his nomination papers in the favour of Congress candidate.

One more candidate-Chaman Lal Verma, who had filed nomination for the elections from the Poonch Haveli constituency, also withdrew his candidature in the favour of Congress candidate Choudhary Bashir Ahmed Naz.

However, the biggest threat to the Congress candidate, besides his arch rival and NC candidate Ajaz Jan, continues to come from former district president of the Congress for Poonch, Choudhary Muhammad Younus Chouhan, who is contesting as the Samajwadi party candidate and is likely to eat sizeable number of votes of the former.

In Poonch district, 14 candidates (mostly independents) of the total of 50 candidates, who had filed their nominations for three seats of the district, withdrew nominations besides nomination forms of some of the candidates were rejected by the election authorities, leaving 36 candidates in fray.