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Ghulam Nabi Azad backs out of Lok Sabha polls days after nomination

Former Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was nominated by his party DPAP from the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary seat, backed out of the Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday.

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Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief Gulam Nabi Azad has decided not to contest the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

Earlier, the former Congress leader was nominated by the DPAP from the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency.

On April 2, former Union Minister Azad was nominated to contest from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat.

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"Chairman DPAP, Ghulam Nabi Azad sahib, will be contesting from the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. This decision was made in today's DPAP working committee meeting," Chief Spokesperson of the party Salman Nizami had posted on X.

Azad, as a candidate of DPAP, was scheduled to take on former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti of the PDP and National Conference's veteran leader Mian Altaf Ahmad, who is the INDIA bloc candidate.

Source: India Today

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