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J&K Congress for Ghulam Nabi Azad as CM face to beat Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti

Azad, a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Rajya Sabha member from the state, was recently made general secretary in charge of Haryana.

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Clamour is growing in the Congress to project leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad as party’s chief ministerial candidate to take on National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti in the forthcoming elections. 

Azad, a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Rajya Sabha member from the state, was recently made general secretary in charge of Haryana. 

But the senior Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir wants high command to send Azad back to state and project him as party’s chief ministerial face in the polls.

“Some time back there was meeting in Srinagar and it was decided Azad Sahab should be the face of Congress in coming elections. I’m sure party is going to take a decision in this direction.  We are going to meet Rahul ji and request him to make an announcement in this regard,” Usman Majeed, General Secretary of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee and former MLA from Bandipora, told DNA.

Under the post-poll alliance between the Congress and PDP in 2002, Azad succeeded Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and became the chief minister of J&K in October 2005 before PDP pulled out in 2008 over the Amarnath land row prompting him to resign months before his three-year term.

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