By IANS,
Jammu : The Peoples Democratic Party has fielded a Sikh and a Hindu for two Lok Sabha seats from the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.
A party spokesman said Tirlok Singh Bajwa, a Sikh leader from the border belt of Jammu and a former member of Rajya Sabha, will be the PDP’s candidate from Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency.
Balbir Singh, a close associate of PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed since the days the Mufti was with Congress, will be the party’s nominee from Doda-Udhampur constituency.
The Congress has fielded its sitting MPs from the two constituencies – Lal Singh from Doda-Udhampur and Madan Lal Sharma from Jammu-Poonch, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has chosen former convenor of Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti Leela Karan Sharma for Jammu-Poonch and its former state unit president Nirmal Singh for Udhampur.