Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 6: The PDP today cleared another list of 11 candidates for the Assembly elections dropping three sitting MLAs and replacing two defeated candidates of 2008 polls.
The list carried the name of PDP patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who would contest from Anantnag Assembly seat, which he represents in the present Assembly.
The PDP has dropped three sitting MLAs including Rafiq Khan from Mendhar, Syed Bashir Ahmed from Rajpora and Abdul Razzaq Zawoora from Shopian.
The party also fielded former Jammu and Kashmir Bank chairman Haseeb Drabu from Rajpora seat, Advocate Mohammad Yusuf Bhat from Shopian and Advocate Maroof Khan from Mendhar.
The PDP has retained two times MLA Mohammad Khalil Bandh from Pulwama and fielded Raja Manzoor from Karnah, Mohammad Abass Wani from Gulmarg, Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi from Surankot, Suhabul Haq from Doda, Firdous Tak from Kishtwar and Nazir Ahmad Naikoo from Sopore.
The party had replaced Abdul Khaliq Bhat from Sopore and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sheikh from Gulmarg, who had lost the Assembly election in 2008.
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