STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Tasaduq Hussain, brother of J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and state Congress president Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Wednesday filed their nominations for the April 12 bypoll to Anantnag Lok Sabha seat.
Hussain and Mir filed their nomination papers before Anantnag Deputy Commissioner Syed Abid Rashid Shah, who is the Returning Officer, officials said. Hussain was accompanied by senior PDP leader and MP Muzaffar Hussain Beig and Minister for Revenue and Rehabilitation Abdul Rehman Veeri among others, they said.
With this, Hussain will foray into the electoral politics.
He officially joined the PDP on January 7 at a function organised to commemorate the first death anniversary of his father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
Meanwhile, Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir, accompanied by former chief minister and National Conference (NC) working president Omar Abdullah and other NC and Congress leaders, filed his nomination papers, officials said.
