"Hope you don't disappoint me and give me an opportunity to be your advocate in Parliament," PDP presiden🐲t Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday in her appeal to voters on the eve of polling in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat.
The PDP chief, working to revi🍒ve her party’s fortunes following its alliance with the BJP in 2015, is up against National Conference's Mian Altaf and 18 others in the controversially redrawn constituency that votes on Saturday in the penultimate round of the seven-phase elections.
"T𒈔omorrow you all will go to vote. I request you to think before casting your vote about who has supported you in diffi♛cult times," the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said in a video message on X.
Mehbooba Mufti said her family, her party and she had paid a huge price f𒁃or advocating the cause of the people.
"Despite that, I rose above cast🍌e and religion, and raised my voice ജfor justice and will continue to do so," she added.
"By supporting me and voting for me, you will definitely give me an opportunity to be your advocate in the Parliament and portray the issues we are facing," she added.
She faces a challenge not just from prominent Gujjar leader and foܫrmer minister Mian Altaf Ahmad but also from Apni Party's Zafar Iqbal Manhas, hoping to turn the tables on both the PDP and the NC after he managed to get the BJP's support in the Pir Panjal region.
The Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) of fo🧸rmer chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has fielded Moha𝐆mmad Saleem Parray from the seat.
