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J&K Congress forms committee to assess Assembly election loss

The committee, headed by senior party leader Ravinder Sharma as chairman, is expected to give its report within 30 days.

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J&K Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra on Friday constituted a high- powered committee to ascertain reasons behind the party’s defeat in the recent Assembly elections in the Union Territory, particularly its wipeout in the Jammu province.

The committee, headed by senior party leader Ravinder Sharma as chairman, is expected to give its report within 30 days. Its members are Jehangir Mir, Naresh Gupta, Thakur Balwan Singh, Shah Mohd Chowdhary, Ved Mahajan and Dina Nath Baghat.

Referring to the poll debacle, a party leader said: “We have to find out the reasons behind it – whether it was the faulty distribution of tickets, lacklustre campaign, or there were some other political reasons.’’

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The Congress contested 30 of Jammu’s 43 seats, including four where it was in a friendly contest with the NC. The only seat it won was Rajouri (ST-reserved), where its candidate Iftkar Ahmed scraped through by 1,404 votes, making it the party’s worst-ever performance in Jammu.

The Congress had won five seats in Jammu province in the 2014 elections.

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