Fifth phase to seal fate of former SDM, doctor

Tribune News Service

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Jammu, December 15

As the focus now shifts to the fifth phase of the Assembly elections, it will seal the fate of two persons, who left their government job to contest the elections.

Jeevan Lal, former Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Nobra, and Anil Dhar, former faculty member of the Department of Medicine at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Jammu, will try their luck in the elections.

Jeevan Lal will contest on the BJP ticket from the Bani Assembly seat of Kathua district while Dhar is contesting as an Independent from the Jammu West Assembly constituency of Jammu district.

Both constituencies will go to the polls on December 20 along with 18 other constituencies of Jammu, Kathua and Rajouri districts of the Jammu region.

Days before the announcement of the elections, Jeevan Lal resigned from his job in the Ladakh region and decided to contest the Assembly elections. After getting BJP ticket, Lal started his campaign in the Bani constituency.

Dhar, on the other hand, is contesting from the Jammu West Assembly seat, one of the three urban constituencies of Jammu district. This constituency is the second biggest seat of the state with over 1.53 lakh voters.

Dhar says he left his job and jumped into the elections for the betterment of society.

“There is a governance and administrative void in the state and it is the need of the hour for educated people to join politics. My sole aim is to fill the void created by leaders of various political parties which have not done justice to society,” Dhar told The Tribune.

He said Jammu city and its peripheries lacked colleges, hospitals and other basic amenities. “Unemployment is growing and development is nowhere in sight. If I am elected, I will work to bring more colleges, hospitals, employment opportunities for the youth by inviting the private sector,” said Dhar.