{"id":16275,"date":"2024-05-04T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=16275"},"modified":"2024-05-04T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:05:44","slug":"five-in-fray-for-ladakh-lok-sabha-seat-3-nominations-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/five-in-fray-for-ladakh-lok-sabha-seat-3-nominations-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Five In Fray For Ladakh Lok Sabha Seat; 3 Nominations Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEH, May 4: Nominations of two covering candidates and an Independent were rejected during scrutiny of papers for the Ladakh <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/lok-sabha-elections-phase-ii-67-22-turnout-till-500-pm-in-jammu-pc\/\">parliamentary constituency<\/a> on Saturday, the Returning officer said. The rejections left only five candidates in the fray, Santosh Sukhadeve said.<br \/>\nLadakh Lok Sabha constituency, the largest in the country with a total area of 173.266 sq km and more than 1.82 lakh voters, will go to polls in the fifth phase of elections on May 20.<br \/>\nThe last date for withdrawal of the candidature is May 6.<br \/>\nAfter scrutiny, nomination forms of five candidates were found valid, while the candidatures of BJP\u2019s and Congress\u2019s covering candidates Stanzin Lakpa and Smanla Dorje Nurboo were cancelled.<br \/>\nThe nomination of Independent candidate Ghulam Nabi Zia, whose form was found incomplete, was rejected as well, Sukhadeve said.<br \/>\nOf the five remaining candidates, BJP\u2019s Tashi Gyalson and Congress\u2019s Tsering Namgyal are from Leh. The three Independents, Mohmad Haneefa Jan, Sajjad Hussain, and Kacho Mohd Feroz are all from Kargil.<br \/>\nThupstan Chhewang won the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat from the BJP for the first time in 2014.<br \/>\nHe resigned from the party in 2018 and is presently heading the Leh Apex Body, which, along with Kargil Democratic Alliance, is spearheading an agitation for restoration of statehood and extension of the sixth schedule of the Constitution to the Union Territory.<br \/>\nThe BJP managed to retain the seat in 2019 general election through Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who, after he was denied a ticket this time, openly revolting against the party.<br \/>\nHe, however, joined the campaign for the party nominee Gyalson on Friday, ending the over week-long uncertainty in the party camp.<br \/>\nCongress has won the seat six times \u2014 the highest, National Conference twice, and Independents thrice since it came into existence in 1967.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16276\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-04-at-4.34.26-PM-300x161.png\" alt=\"Five In Fray For Ladakh Lok Sabha Seat; 3 Nominations Rejected\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five In Fray For Ladakh Lok Sabha Seat; 3 Nominations Rejected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEH, May 4: Nominations of two covering candidates and an Independent were rejected during scrutiny of papers for the Ladakh parliamentary constituency on Saturday, the Returning officer said. The rejections left only five candidates in the fray, Santosh Sukhadeve said. Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency, the largest in the country with a total area of 173.266 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,89,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladakh","category-national","category-political"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five In Fray For Ladakh Lok Sabha Seat; 3 Nominations Rejected<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nominations of two covering candidates and an Independent were rejected during scrutiny of papers for the Ladakh parliamentary constituency\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/five-in-fray-for-ladakh-lok-sabha-seat-3-nominations-rejected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five In Fray For Ladakh Lok Sabha Seat; 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