Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 5: Giving a clear indication of breaking the alliance with the PDP, the National Conference on Tuesday made it clear that party would contest all the three seats of Kashmir Valley.
Talking to the reporters after the party’s Parliamentary Board meeting, senior National Conference leader Nasir Aslam Wani said that the party is going to contest elections on all three seats of Kashmir Valley.
“Of course, we will contest elections on three seats which party has won in 2019”, Wani said and added that the names of the candidates on three seats would be announced very soon.
Wani further said that discussions with Congress would be held on the remaining three seats of Jammu province and Ladakh.
Earlier the National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah along with Vice President Omar Abdu Of course, we will contest three seats which NC won in 2019.
Names of the candidates would be announced very soon.
Discussions with Congress would be held on the remaining three seats of Jammu and Ladakh.
On Feb 15 Omar Abdullah had declared that his party would not leave any seat in Kashmir.
The statement of Nasir Aslam Wani is a clear indication that the National Conference is not going to give any importance to its arch-rival-turned-partner in the seat-sharing discussions.
Earlier on February 15 Omar Abdullah also declared that his party would not leave three seats of the Kashmir Valley for coalition partners.
“If the INDIA alliance intends to stop the BJP from retaining three Lok Sabha seats of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir then there is no need to hold discussions of three seats of Kashmir Valley”, Omar stated, adding, “Three seats of Kashmir Valley are already with the INDIA bloc so our discussions should be only on Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda, and Ladakh Lok Sabha seats”. | 