Srinagar, May 16 -- Prison past, and an ongoing sentence in one case, has become the poll plank of two prominent candidates in the Valley, where 60 candidates are in fray for three Lok Sabha seats.

Peoples Democratic Party youth leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, who contested from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, and jailed legislator Engineer Rashid, vying from Baramulla, have centred their campaigns around their own jail terms as well as incarceration of other youths in the region.

These two ran similar campaigns on the theme, "Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se (Vote is our answer to jail terms)".

While Engineer Rashid is still lodged in Tihar jail under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act charges, Waheed-ur-Rehman Para spent three years in various ja...