Apni Party Backs Taj Mohi-ud-Din, PDP Withdraws Support

Apni Party To Support Taj Mohi-Ud-Din From Uri Constituency

Srinagar- The Apni Party on Monday announced support to former Jammu and Kashmir minister Taj Mohiuddin, who is contesting as an independent candidate from Uri assembly segment in Baramulla district.

The support was announced by Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari at a press conference here.

“The Apni Party has decided to back Mohiuddin. We will lend our full support to him,” Bukhari said.

He said the decision was taken keeping in mind the interests of the people of the Uri assembly segment.

“There is no personal interest. Neither does Mohiuddin have any personal interest, nor do I,” he added.

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Bukhari said Mohiuddin is a tall leader and expressed hope that he would be elected to the assembly.

However, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn its support for Taj Mohi-ud-Din in the Uri constituency after the Apni Party extended its backing to him.

The PDP has announced that it will now field its own candidate for the upcoming elections in Uri.

PDP’s Mohammad Rafique Rather said that they are ideologically apart from the Apni Party.

“It became natural for us to withdraw support after the Apni Party announced its backing for him,” Rather said.

“In view of the Apni Party extending support to Taj Mohi-ud-Din in the Uri constituency, PDP has decided to withdraw its support and field its own candidate,” PDP wrote in a post on X.

Reacting to the PDP’s decision, Taj Mohi-ud-Din commented, “It was their decision to support me, and it is their decision to withdraw. I had already informed PDP during the press conference that the Apni Party was supporting me.”

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