The Congress on Wednesday announced 15 candidates for the first phase of Assembly polls in Jammu & Kashmir which included Imtiyaz Paray, son of anti-militancy group founder Kuka Paray, among others.
The party also declared Mohammad Sharief Niaz from Bhaderwah constituency, from where former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had contested Assembly elections in 2008.
The list was released a day after notification was issued for the first phase of polls to be held on November 25 in which 15 Assembly seats — three in Baramulla, two in Srinagar, four in ladakh and six in Udhampur — will go to polls.Imtiyaz Paray will contest elections from Sonawari constituency.
His father, also a former MlA, had established ‘Ikhwan-ul-Muslemoon’, a counter-insurgent force to fight militants. He was killed by militants in 2003. Sitting MlA and Minister Rigzin Jora will be contesting from leh again.