<p>Srinagar: The brother of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru filed his nomination to contest the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as an Independent candidate from the Sopore seat.</p>.<p>Ajaz Guru, a resident of Baramulla's Delina area, filed his nomination from Sopore in the north Kashmir district on the last day of submitting the papers.</p>.J&K Polls 2024: 'BJP hits upfront, I.N.D.I.A. bloc stabs in the back,' says Engineer Rashid.<p>After filing his papers, Ajaz Guru told reporters that he entered the electoral fray as, like all Kashmiris, he was also a victim of "35 years of hardships".</p>.<p>The nomination papers will be scrutinised on Friday while the last date to withdraw the papers is September 17.</p>.<p>Sopore will go to the polls in the third phase of the elections on October 1.</p>.<p>Afzal Guru was hanged in Delhi's Tihar jail on February 9, 2013, for plotting the December 2001 attack on Parliament.</p>
<p>Srinagar: The brother of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru filed his nomination to contest the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as an Independent candidate from the Sopore seat.</p>.<p>Ajaz Guru, a resident of Baramulla's Delina area, filed his nomination from Sopore in the north Kashmir district on the last day of submitting the papers.</p>.J&K Polls 2024: 'BJP hits upfront, I.N.D.I.A. bloc stabs in the back,' says Engineer Rashid.<p>After filing his papers, Ajaz Guru told reporters that he entered the electoral fray as, like all Kashmiris, he was also a victim of "35 years of hardships".</p>.<p>The nomination papers will be scrutinised on Friday while the last date to withdraw the papers is September 17.</p>.<p>Sopore will go to the polls in the third phase of the elections on October 1.</p>.<p>Afzal Guru was hanged in Delhi's Tihar jail on February 9, 2013, for plotting the December 2001 attack on Parliament.</p>