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| Congress undecided over selection of candidates for LC seats | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 20 :-Though the two main partners in the ruling coalition, National Conference and the Congress, have in principle agreed to share six vacant Legislative Council seats in the ratio of 4:2, the Congress is yet to decide the names of the candidates who would be fielded for the two seats.
Party sources said that the ongoing tussle between the loyalists headed by Saif-ud-Din Soz and the dissidents led by Ghulam Nabi Azad, has delayed selection of candidates for the two seats. While Azad favours Abdul Gani Vakil, a sitting member of the upper house, and Mir Jehangir; Soz group wants the party high command either to field Mangat Ram Sharma a former Deputy Chief Minister who lost the Assembly poll in 2008.
Loyalists plan that if Mangat Ram was elected to the upper House he could be later considered for the post of Deputy Chief Ministership. But Azad is opposed to it. He does not want to lose Vakil who has been a very vocal supporter of the Union Health Minister.
Reports said that since Soz does not want the Azad camp to get its favourites elected to the Council, it has suggested to the Congress high command the name of Amitabh Mattoo former Vice Chancellor of Jammu University who declined to accept the post of vice chancellor central university Jammu. Soz is said to have informed the party high command that neither the lower House nor the Council has any representation from the Kashmir Pandits.
However, the going for the ruling coalition does not seem to be quite easy because of the opposition plan to forge unity to deprive the NC and the Congress to bag all the six seats. The BJP which has 11 seats in the Assembly and the Panthers Party with three seats are trying to forge unity. However, initial reports said that the opposition can frustrate the designs of the ruling coalition in case the BJP, Panthers Party and the PDP, which has 21 seats in the lower House, join hands.
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