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| NC officially stakes claim on majority LS seats in J&K, Ladakh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 16: Amid reports about bickering among constituents of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) in J&K, the National Conference staked its claim on the majority of the six Lok Sabha seats in the Union Territories (UTs) of J&K and Ladakh.
General Secretary of the National Conference and former minister Ali Mohammad Sagar asserted that there was no reason for any constituents of the INDIA alliance in J&K to stake a claim on any of the three Parliamentary seats of Kashmir Valley.
“In the 2019 general elections the National Conference won all the three seats of Kashmir Valley so the question of leaving these seats for constituents of INDIA alliance does not rise”, Sagar said and asserted that the National Conference has a genuine claim on seat of Jammu province.
To substantiate a claim of his party on one seat of the Jammu region, Sagar recalled the 2002 Lok Sabha by-election when the then National Conference candidate Choudhary Talib Hussain had defeated the then BJP candidate Dr. Nirmal Singh on the Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha seat.
When asked about accommodating coalition partners in the coming Lok Sabha elections, Sagar said that the National Conference leadership would take a final decision but party workers were of the view that the National Conference should contest elections on majority of the Parliamentary seats in J&K and Ladakh.
When his attention was drawn towards statements of Congress leaders demanding three Parliamentary seats of J&K, Sagar said that all political parties have a right to stake claim but decisions should be taken while taking the ground reality into confidence.
One thing is clear the National Conference is a strong force in both Jammu and Kashmir regions as well as in the Union Territory of Ladakh, he said. |
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