Politics in land of poets: All eyes on Dooru as Delhi watches closely | India News – Times of India
ANANTNAG: Often celebrated as the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru seems thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots in this pretty town cradled by the towering Pir Panjal range in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Dooru is currently drawing attention not for its rich literary history, but for politics, as J&K gears up for its first assembly elections in a decade.Among the ten candidates vying for the Dooru assembly constituency is AICC general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the nominee of the National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance.Mir, a two-time legislator, faces competition from PDP’s Mohammad Ashraf Malik and independents backed by the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami...