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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 15: Despite attending the first meeting of the opposition parties at Patna, leaderships of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference are yet to finalize seat-sharing arrangement for the coming Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Highly placed sources said that the National Conference president and former Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah, who is the convenor of the Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) is ready to ally with arch-rival PDP in the coming Lok Sabha elections to take on BJP but a faction within the NC is not ready to leave any Lok Sabha seat for the PDP.
Highly placed sources said that the faction which is opposing leaving any Lok Sabha seat for the PDP, and suggested that instead of contesting Parliamentary elections the PDP leadership should support the opposition candidates on all the five Lok Sabha seats of Jammu and Kashmir.
This group suggested that PDP should support the National Conference on three seats in Kashmir Valley and the Congress on two seats in Jammu province.
This group argued that during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections the National Conference had won all three Parliamentary seats of Kashmir Valley and Congress was runner-up in two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province.
Notably in August 2022, the National Conference (NC) provincial committee of Kashmir Valley had unanimously passed a resolution to contest all 90 Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir without going for any pre-poll alliance.
“Provincial Committee members unanimously resolved that JKNC should prepare and fight all 90 seats,” the party had stated in a statement after a meeting chaired by the party's vice president and former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah.
With much publicity, the PAGD was formed in October 2019 by six political parties with the pledge of perseverance and steadfastness toward the restoration of Article 370.
This resolution was written in the Alliance's declaration where the political parties stated there would be "nothing about us without us," meaning they will stick together come what may.
"We want to assure people that all our political activities will be subservient to the sacred goal of reverting to the status of J&K as it existed before August 2019," read PAGD's declaration.
Within a couple of months after its formation, PAGD had received a severe jolt when Sajad Lone of the Peoples' Conference, left the alliance. Lone charged both NC and PDP with fielding proxy candidates against the officially mandated candidates of the alliance during the DDC elections. He called these actions "a breach of trust". |
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