National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party Member of Parliaments (MP) on Friday stayed away from the swearing-in ceremony of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Kumar Sinha in Srinagar.
Unnamed sources told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that none of the MPs from the National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) attended the function held at Raj Bhavan in Srinagar.
“All MPs of NC and lone PDP Rajya Sabha MP Fayaz Ahmad Mir stayed away from the function,” they said, adding that expelled PDP MP Nazir Ahmad Laway attended the function.
Mr. Laway was expelled last year by the party for attending swearing-in ceremony of Girish Chandra Murmu on 31 October 2019 when he took oath as the first LG of J-K UT.
KNO also reported, quoting unnamed sources, that top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders of J-K including Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh, Kavinder Gupta, Nirmal Singh, Ravinder Raina, Ashok Koul, and Sofi Yosouf attended the ceremony.
Interestingly, three politicians from Apni Party, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Rafi Ahmad Mir, and Muhammad Ashraf Mir, were present there.
Both Ghulam Hassan Mir and Rafi Ahmad Mir were trounced in 2014 elections from Gulmarg and Pahalgam segments respectively. (KNO)
