National Conference Chief and Former J&K CM Omar Abdullah on Sunday said that his party received a proposal for alliance in Jammu and Kashmir from the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha polls.
He said, as quoted as saying by news agency IANS, “We have told them clearly that only National Conference candidates will be there on the three seats in the Kashmir Valley.”
Jammu and Kashmir has six Lok Sabha seats.
As per Mr Abdullah’s system, the Congress would be left with three seats, two of them in Hindu-majority Jammu and one in Ladakh.
Abdullah said, “If it suits them (Congress), then we can talk about other seats. Let’s see what response we receive.”
Previously, in 2014 general elections, the 6 seats in the J&K Valley were split equally between the BJP and Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party(PDP).
The National Conference(NC) and the Congress, which were in an alliance, drew a blank.
Previously, Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad lost the seat from Jammu. Farooq Abdullah, the father of Omar Abdullah, lost the election from Karra.
The Congress had been facing sharp criticism over its handling of alliances in other states. While its seat share has been finalised in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and UP but also, the talks of alliance in Maharashtra and Bihar are lagging.
Situation in Bihar could be speculated as troubling as Tejashwi Yadav, on Friday, tweeted what was seen as a warning for Congress.
He in his tweet said, “If one does not shed arrogance just for the sake of a few seats, then people who still believe in the constitution won’t forgive it.”
संविधान और देश पर अभूतपूर्व संकट है। अगर अबकी बार विपक्ष से कोई रणनीतिक चुक हुई तो फिर देश में आम चुनाव होंगे या नहीं, कोई नहीं जानता? अगर अपनी चंद सीटें बढ़ाने और सहयोगियों की घटाने के लिए अहंकार नहीं छोड़ा तो संविधान में आस्था रखने वाले न्यायप्रिय देशवासी माफ़ नहीं करेंगे।
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) March 16, 2019