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Cong headed to split with NC in J&K, to fight Assembly polls alone

| | Jul 20, 2014, at 08:24 pm
New Delhi, July 20 (IBNS): The Congress party is headed to end its alliance with the National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir as it announced on Sunday that it will contest the Assembly elections in the state for all 87 seats alone.
"It is better not to depend on other party like we did in 2002 and 2008, we contested of our own, let us contest of our own again. We don't want to run the risk in assembly election," Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
 
He also said there is no danger to the current state government as the party will not pull out their support. 
 
The Congress has 17 MLAs in the 87-member State Legislative Assembly.
 
Soon after the announcement by the Congress, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted: "I met  Mrs Gandhi 10 days ago & thanked her for all her support. I conveyed NC's decision to fight the elections alone."
 
"I explained the reasons but also told her I wouldn't be making a public announcement because I didn't want it to look opportunistic," he said.
 
He also claimed that it was the NC's decision in the first place and not the other way around as is being portrayed. 
 
"For it to be spun now as a Cong decision is wrong & a complete distortion of the facts, not surprising but incorrect none the less," Abdullah posted.
 
After being decimated in the Lok Sabha elections, in which the Congress lost all the three seats it fought in alliance with the NC, a majority of party workers reportedly told the party leadership to contest the upcoming polls in the J&K alone.
 
 
 
#Congress headed to split with NC in J&K # to fight Assembly polls alone # Omar Abdullah # Gulam Nabi Azad

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