Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 27: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Monday once again indicated that Peoples Democratic Party has no role in discussions over seat sharing arrangement for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Omar made it explicitly clear that the National Conference will hold a second round of discussions with Congress on seat-sharing in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Union territories for the LS polls as the two parties could not reach an understanding in the earlier round of talks held last week.
“There has been one round of discussion in New Delhi. There were certain proposals put forward by the Congress which required to be discussed within the NC party. One of the proposals that they had has not found acceptance from the NC senior leadership that is there. So, we will go back. We will have a second round of “There has been one round of discussion in New Delhi. There were certain proposals put forward by the Congress which required to be discussed within the NC party. One of the proposals that they had has not found acceptance from the NC senior leadership that is there. So, we will go back. We will have a second round of discussion,”
Pertinently, Omar has been reiterating that his party won’t leave any of the three seats in Kashmir, while Congress has been saying that it would field its candidates from two seats in Jammu and one in Ladakh.
“It seems PDP is officially out of the seat sharing arrangement talks and its NC and Congress who have to decide. It appears that PDP won’t be contesting any seats. The party appears to have withdrawn,” an analyst told Early Times.
It may be recalled that NC had won Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag seats while BJP was victorious in Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh in the 2019 general elections.
“I am sure in the next round of discussion, we will have it (seat-sharing arrangement) concluded. I am going to Delhi in a few days and I will have another round of discussion with the people (Congress leaders) there,” he said. | 