On Monday, the National Conference decided to contest all six Lok Sabha seats in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, also the NC has left a slight possibility of an alliance with Congress on National scenario.
Previously, the National Conference(NC) and the Congress have been considered to be in talks for a pre-poll alliance.
The Party after their meeting of the Parliamentary board of the National Conference, decided to contest on all the six Lok Sabha seats.
Sources said that the talks didn’t work out because of differences over seat-sharing.
In a reaction to a possible opportunity for a tie-up, NC sources said that the party’s Parliamentary Board left the final decision on party’s patron Farooq Abdullah, “based on the national scenario”.
Meanwhile, an NC spokesman said Abdullah will seek reelection from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat while former Jammu and Kashmir speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone will be the party’s candidate from the Baramulla constituency.
Previously, the National Conference(NC) 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.”
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.
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.