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Peoples Party to decide on Lone`s successor on Sunday
The Peoples` Party is meeting here on Sunday to decide who will represent the party at the Hurriyat Conference in place of its slain leader Abdul Gani Lone.
The Peoples' Party is meeting here on Sunday to decide who will represent the party at the Hurriyat Conference in place of its slain leader Abdul Gani Lone.
A meeting of the party's supreme council and executive council will decide on Sunday our party's represenative in the 23-party amalgam, party spokesman Khalid Ahmad told reporters.
on Thursday, Lone's younger son Sajjad Gani was elected party's new chairman and his elder brother Bilal as six-member supreme council's president.
Sajjad was expected to take his father's place on the Hurriyat executive.
Denying rumours that there was a rift between the two brothers on the issue, Ahmad said "it is the handiwork of anti-party and anti-Kashmiri elements." Bureau Report
on Thursday, Lone's younger son Sajjad Gani was elected party's new chairman and his elder brother Bilal as six-member supreme council's president.
Sajjad was expected to take his father's place on the Hurriyat executive.
Denying rumours that there was a rift between the two brothers on the issue, Ahmad said "it is the handiwork of anti-party and anti-Kashmiri elements." Bureau Report