Bilawal approves 31 candidates for AJK general elections
May 25, 2021 01:34 AM
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday initially approved 31 candidates for the upcoming Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) general elections-2021.
According to 24NewsHD TV Channel, Bilawal chaired a virtual meeting of the party’s Parliamentary Board for AJK general elections and interviewed 45 candidates himself on the recommendations of the party board.
The PPP chairman would finalise the names of the other 14 candidates for fielding into the AJK general elections on all 45 seats of the assembly later.
Total 196 workers for 45 seats applied to the PPP for getting party tickets to contest the next general elections in AJK. PPP Women Wing President Faryal Talpur headed as many as seven parliamentary board meetings and recommended some candidates for the final approval of the party chairman, Bilawal Bhutto.
The board had completed its interviews of all 196 candidates and recommended their names to the chairman for approval.
The board interviewed 59 aspiring candidates of Muzaffarabad Division, 51 of Mirpur Division, 61 candidates of Poonch Division, and 25 candidates of Jammu and Valley.
PPP Chairman Bilawal approved the names of candidates for LA-1 Mirpur-1 Muhammad Afsar Shahid, LA-2 Mirpur 2 Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, LA-3 Mirpur 3 Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf, LA-5 Bhimber 1 Chaudhry Pervez Ashraf, LA 7 Bhimber 3 Anis Ahmed Kashmiri, LA 8 Kotli 1 Muhammad Aftab Anjum, LA-9 Kotli 2 Javed Iqbal Badhanvi, LA-11 Kotli 4 Sardar Muhammad Bashir Pehalwan, LA 13 Kotli 6 Muhammad Waleed Inqalabi, LA 14 Bagh 1 Raja Khawar Qayyum Advocate, LA-15 Bagh 2 Sardar Zia-u- Qamar, LA-16 Bagh 3 Sardar Qamar Zaman, LA-17 Bagh 4 Faisal Mumtaz Rathor, LA-18 Poonch 1 Sardar Amjad Yousuf Khan, LA-19 Poonch 2 Sardar Saud bin Sadiq, LA-23 Poonch-6 Sardar Muhammad Raees Khan, LA-24 Poonch 7 Sardar Inayat Ullah Arif, LA-27 Muzaffarabad 1 Sardar Muhammad Javed Ayyub, LA-28 Muzaffarabad 2 Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi, LA-29 Muzaffarabad-3 Sardar Mubarak Haider, LA-30 Muzaffarabad-4 Mubashar Munir Awan, LA-31 Muzaffarabad 5 Chaudhry Latif Akbar, LA 32 Muzaffarabad 6 Sahibzada Muhammad Ishfaq Zafar, LA 33 Muzaffarabad 7 Sahibzada Muhammad Imtiaz Zafar, LA-35 Jammu 2 Muhammad Iqbal Mujadadi, LA-36 Jammu-3 Chaudhry Shaukat Wazir Ali, LA-39 Jammu 6 Chaudhry Fakhar-uz-Zaman Gul, LA 40 Kashmir Valley 1 Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone, LA 42 Kashmir Valley 3 Hafeez Ahmed Butt, LA-43 Kashmir Valley 4 Azhar Gilani, and LA 44 Kashmir Valley 5 Rashid Salam Butt.
PPP leaders Raja Pervez Ashraf, Nair Bukhari, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Faisal Rathore, Chaudhry Pervez Ashraf, Javed Ayub, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, Sardar Yaqub Khan, Chaudhry Yasin, Nabila Ayub, Fakhar-uz-Zaman Gul and Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone also joined the PPP Parliamentary Board for Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections. The PPP parliamentary board also includes Mian Abdul Waheed, Sardar Qamar Zaman were included in the parliamentary board.
Reporter: Usman Javed