As Jammu and Kashmir prepares for the third and final phase of the Assembly polls on Tuesday, over the past few days two candidates with a Tihar connection were busy making last-minute efforts to reach out to voters. One is 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s brother Aijaz Ahmad Guroo who is contesting as an Independent from Sopore and the other is Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s brother Sheikh Khurshid who is contesting from the family stronghold of Langate as an Independent. While Afzal’s 2013 execution and subsequent burial in Tihar Jail has been a burning political issue in the Kashmir Valley, Aijaz does not talk about it and has publicly declared he will not seek votes in his brother’s name as their ideologies are different. Instead, his campaign revolves around development and “political step-motherly treatment” of Sopore. During a door-to-door campaign in the constituency, he tells a woman that he did not go to the doorsteps of “rich people”. He hands out a few posters bearing his election symbol, his picture and a message that …