Assembly polls: NC declares first list of candidates

Ruling National Conference on Tuesday announced the first list of its 32 candidates for the forthcoming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, giving mandate to 20 of the 28 sitting MLAs.

Speaker of state Legislative Assembly Mubarak Gul and 10 ministers were included in the list of the candidates announced by party’s general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar after the parliamentary board meeting chaired by working president Omar Abdullah.

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has vetted the list 

which includes only one new face as the party has stood by the even those candidates who had lost to opposition candidates in the 2008 assembly elections.