Former Khaitan & Co associate Yawar Dilawar Mir became the youngest candidate to win the Kashmir state assembly elections in December, reported the Tribune India.
Mir had filed his nomination papers from the Rafiabad constituency on 20 November, reported Greater Kashmir, after his father – Peoples Democratic Party candidate from Rafiabad Mohammad Dilawar Mir – was convicted for three years by a Delhi court in a case of illegal release of fertilisers.
Mir graduated from ILS Pune and obtained his LLM from Nottingham University in the UK after which he worked at Khaitan.
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In Sopore, Abdul Dar in 2002 had won the constituency on Congress ticket by securing 2062 votes defeating Abdul Ahad Vakil who secured only 1515 votes then. He lost the contest to NC’s Mohammad Ashraf Ganaie in 2008. Dar had got 3304 votes and Ganaie had got 4368 then in 2008 assembly elections.
Such woeful numbers are seen in many places in Kashmir. The elections are an eyewash.
In 2014, in Rafiabad, Yawar got 17,881 votes and won while Congress’s Vakil got 15,572 votes and stood runner up. So 2309 votes is all he needed. The other 15000 are jis father's loyal workers who'd vote for him either way. The 2309 came due to the anti-NC wave and random people are taking the benefit.
Kashmir needs a Peter. A Peter of Harlem, I say, not these run of the mill wannbe power-grabbers
I know this is not related to the post in any way.. but hey... anyone reading the comments here would surely see the serious disconnect ...
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