The Nationwide Convention emerged because the single-largest occasion within the Meeting elections.
Srinagar:
At the least 13 newly elected MLAs in Jammu and Kashmir come from political households whose members have gained or contested elections up to now, with the Nationwide Convention accounting for the utmost variety of such legislators.
The Nationwide Convention, which has emerged as the only largest occasion within the Meeting elections, is about to kind the federal government after combating the polls in an alliance with the Congress.
Chief Minister designate Omar Abdullah is a third-generation legislator from the Abdullah clan. His father Farooq Abdullah and grandfather Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah have each been MLAs and the chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir as properly.
Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra comes from an influential political household from Srinagar. Though his grandfather Ghulam Mohiuddin Karra was by no means an MLA, he held appreciable affect within the Nationwide Convention until he parted methods with Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in 1954 to kind his personal occasion — Political Convention.
The JKPCC chief has been an MLA up to now. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Srinagar constituency in 2014 however resigned to protest the civilian killings in the course of the summer season unrest of 2016 within the valley.
A person anticipated to have a shiny political future among the many second-generation politicians is Salman Sagar, who has been elected to the Meeting from the Hazratbal seat.
Salman Sagar’s father, Ali Mohammad Sagar, might be sitting within the entrance row of the treasury benches within the meeting having gained a report seventh straight time period as an MLA — twice from the erstwhile Batamaloo seat and 5 occasions from the Khanyar phase.
A key participant in tribal politics of Kashmir, Mian Altaf Ahmad — who’s presently the Lok Sabha member from Anantnag-Rajouri constituency — has been changed because the MLA from Kangan by his son Mian Mehar Ali. The 67-year-old Lok Sabha member would have been vying for a sixth straight time period if he had not been elected to the Lok Sabha earlier this yr.
One other relative of Mian Altaf Ahmad has been elected to the meeting this time. His brother-in-law Zafar Ali Khatana was elected from the Kokernag meeting phase, which has been reserved for the Scheduled Tribe candidates following the delimitation train in 2022.
Hilal Akbar Lone, the son of former meeting speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone, has been elected from the Sonawari seat. The senior Lone was a member from the Sonawari seat 3 times between 2002 and 2018.
Nationwide Convention chief spokesman Tanvir Sadiq, who was elected from Zadibal meeting phase, is the son of former MLA Sadiq Ali whereas the occasion’s MLA from Uri, Sajjad Shafi, is the son of former Training Minister Mohammad Shafi Uri.
Irshad Rasool Kar, who gained on a Nationwide Convention ticket from Sopore meeting phase, is the son of veteran Congress chief and former JKPCC chief Ghulam Rasool Kar.
The MLA from Srigufwara-Bijbehara Bashir Ahmad Veeri is the son of former minister Abdul Gani Shah Veeri whereas MLA Lal Chowk Sheikh Ahsan Ahmad is the son of former MLC Sheikh Ghulam Qadir Pardesi.
Exterior the Nationwide Convention (NC)-Congress alliance, PDP MLA Rafeeq Ahmad Naik, who gained from the Tral phase, is the son of former speaker and Nationwide Convention chief Ali Mohammad Naik and MLA Langate Khursheed Ahmad Sheikh is the brother of Lok Sabha member from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid.
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