KL Report
SRINAGAR
Congressman Usman Majid won Bandipora defeating his nearest rival PDP’s Nizam Ud Din Bhat by 3784 votes.
Last time when Bandipora went to polls, Bhat emerged victorious defeating Majid by a margin of 820 votes.
In 2002 elections, people had voted Majid to assembly on the ticket of Kuka Parray’s Awami League. (Parray was former renegade-turned-politician who engineered a mass surrender of militants and eventually helped the Indian Army to nab militancy.)
Majid eventually rose up to become state minister in 2002 PDP-Congress coalition. But after Parray was killed by militants in 2003, Majid became Parray’s last ‘flag-bearer’.
