Srinagar, Mar 9 (KNS): Ahead of the announcement of notification for the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the state unit of Congress Saturday said that it has forwarded the complete list of shortlist candidates for all the seats from the state to high command for final selection.
Sources told Kashmir News service (KNS) that as the Election commission of India is announcing the Lok sabha poll dates for the Lok Sabha elections in all the states including Jammu and Kashmir state in the coming week, the Congress took a lead in announcing its probable candidates for the Parliamentary seats.
Reliable sources told KNS that Congress has suggested four names for Srinagar Parliamentary constituency including Tariq Hameed Karra, Kadfeen Choudhary,  Farooq Andrabi and Abdul Gani Khan, two names have been suggested from South Kashmir--Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed and Ghulam Ahmed Mir while Taj Mohiudin and Ghulam Nabi Monga and Saifudin Soz are the names suggested for north Kashmir Lok Sabha seat.
For Jammu, Madan Lal Sharma and for Udhampur Vikramaditya Singh has been shortlisted. Sources said that polls will be held in April in phases.
Though sources said that though there has been no official announcement in this regard, sources said that some of the leaders in the shortlist have been asked by the party high command to tighten the belt and go ahead with their election campaign for the respective Parliamentary seats.
Sources said that for Congress, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will be the chief campaigner for the Lok Sabha polls in J&K.
The PDP, sources said have started deliberations to zero in on the names to be fielded for upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Similarly, the National Conference is also holding hectic parleys to finalize the candidates. “We are ready to contest and that we are waiting for the final announcement of ECI,”NC General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar told KNS.
Meanwhile, ECI is likely to announce its decision on holding polls in JK in a few days. Sources however said that LoK Sabha will be held first and then Assembly polls.
One of the senior congress leaders wished not to be named said that the candidates would be announced within a couple of days.
The leader, however, refused to comment on whether the party will enter into an alliance.
The party is fully prepared for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Kashmir. We have already put forward names of candidates for all the parliamentary seats to the high command for a final call,” said the leader. (KNS)