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| Central Congress leaders to campaign for NC in Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Apr 16: Despite Congress not contesting from any of the three parliamentary seats in Kashmir, senior Congress leaders from different parts of the country will be seen addressing poll rallies in the Valley.
These central leaders and Congress star campaigners will be seeking votes for the three NC candidates contesting from Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag. Being coalition partners both the Congress and NC are contesting elections jointly. “Yes, many Central leaders will be visiting Kashmir to seek votes for coalition partner National Conference,” Senior Congress vice president, Muzuffar Parray said. “We have already received indications that top Congress leaders will be visiting Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir,” he said. “We wish more leaders should visit Kashmir.”
On its part NC too wants that some top Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi to visit the Valley to campaign for the NC candidates as the NC leaders feel that presence of senior Congress leaders will help NC candidates to bag more votes.
In the recently concluded assembly elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi addressed poll rallies in South Kashmir, Uri and Tanghdar areas of the Valley. Congress leaders have not ruled out possibility of Sonia Gandhi visiting Kashmir to canvass for the National Conference. Although National Conference has emerged as the biggest party in the Valley in the assembly elections, the Congress too has a good support base in some pockets of Kashmir especially in the border belts of North Kashmir and many parts of South Kashmir.
Though J-K has only six parliamentary seats, but the state Congress leadership is taking the parliamentary elections seriously and the party high command wants that the coalition should bag all the six seats. After Congress and National Conference entered into coalition both the parties managed to win four Rajya Sabha seats and maximum number of Council seats and both Congress and National Conference want to repeat the previous performance.
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