Ali Mohammad Sagar Secures Fifth Win From Khanyar

National Conference (NC) leader Ali Mohammad Sagar has secured his fifth consecutive win from Khanyar assembly segment. He defeated Independent candidate Sheikh Imran by a margin of 9,912 votes.

Sagar, a seasoned politician and general secretary of the party has been winning the seat since 1996. In the 2008 polls, Sagar received 6314 votes. He had defeated PDP candidate Showkat Ahmad Hafiz by a margin of 5508 votes. In 2014, he defeated PDP’s Muhammad Khurshid Alam by a margin of 1167 votes.

Sagar has also served various ministerial roles within Omar Abdullah-led Jammu and Kashmir government. He has been serving as a general secretary of the party since 2014.

Interestingly, the NC has also fielded his son Salman Sagar also in the poll fray. Salman Sagar is the provincial youth president of NC, and faced his debut assembly polls from Hazratbal.

The Khanyar, along with 25 other constituencies, went to the polls in the second phase on September 25.