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| NC ready to leave Anantnag for Sonia, but not for Mehbooba | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 8: Dumping the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) from the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc in J&K, the National Conference on Friday ruled out leaving any seat for the party in both the UTs of J&K and Ladakh.
“We are not forcefully staking claims on the Anantnag seat. If Congress is so much interested we are ready to leave this seat provided Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, or Rahul Gandhi should contest on this parliamentary seat”, former chief minister and vice-president of the National Conference Omar Abdullah said.
NC has firmly stated that six seats of the seats of J&K and Ladakh will only be divided between two parties.
Omar Abdullah clarified that out of the total six Lok Sabha seats in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh, three each will be allocated to the Congress and the National Conference.
“PDP is not part of the seat-sharing arrangements of the INDIA bloc in J&K and Ladakh,” Omar stated, adding, “We did not exclude PDP. Circumstances have kept PDP out of the seat-sharing arrangements among INDIA bloc constituents.”
Omar ridiculed the PDP for claiming the prestigious Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, questioning, “How can the first and s “How can the first and second parties leave this seat for the party that secured the third position in the previous elections?”
Although Mehbooba Mufti won this seat in the 2014 and 2004 Lok Sabha elections as a candidate of the PDP, she came in third in the 2019 Parliamentary election for the same seat.
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference candidate Hasnain Masoodi emerged victorious with 40,180 votes, while Congress candidate Ghulam Ahmed Mir was the runner-up with 33,504 votes, and Mehbooba Mufti secured 30,424 votes.
The late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, founder of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and father of Mehbooba Mufti, won this Parliamentary seat in the 1998 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate.
Omar blamed PDP for violating coalition principles, continuing his criticism of the coalition partner for disregarding coalition ethics. He stated that PDP leaders were seizing every opportunity to demonize coalition partners through speeches, statements, and social media posts.
“It is the responsibility of all coalition partners to refrain from attacking each other, but PDP leaders have shown no respect for other partners,” he remarked, recalling a social media post by Iltiza Mufti after the “rigged” general election in Pakistan. |
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