Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 2: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today made clear that no decision on pre-poll alliance with the Congress had been taken as yet.
"National Conference has not taken a decision yet (on a pre-poll alliance with Congress)," Omar told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
The NC leader was responding to questions about reports that Congress, at a party meeting in Jammu, has decided to go alone in the next Assembly elections.
Asked if there were any differences between National Conference and Congress, Omar said, "There is no tension. There is still some time to go for the (Assembly) elections."
He said National Conference has given the responsibility to party patron Farooq Abdullah to take a decision on pre-poll alliance.
"Whatever decision he (Farooq) takes will be followed (by party leaders)," Omar said.
National Conference and Congress entered into a post-poll alliance following a hung Assembly in 2008 Assembly elections.
Although the coalition has functioned smoothly for most part of the past four and half years, there have been occasions when leaders from the two parties have traded charges.
According to inside reports, several leaders of the Congress party have raised the issue of Governance deficit in the state and blamed the National Conference Ministers of according step motherly treatment to them.
Both the alliance partners were recently locked in a bitter fight in the recent elections to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil against each other with Congress getting together enough members to take control of the 26-member council. |
