The PDP and the National Conference — the 2 INDIA bloc companions in Jammu and Kashmir — shall be taking over one another on the three Lok Sabha seats in the valley. Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP accused National Conference (NC) vice chairman Omar Abdullah of leaving them “no option”.
Abdullah, nevertheless, hit again saying the PDP was going again on the understanding reached between the constituents of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) for the District Development Council (DDC) elections in 2020. Mufti informed reporters right here that the NC has left her occasion with no different choice apart from to contest the election on the three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir.
“They (NC) have left no option for us other than to field candidates and contest the elections,” Mufti stated. The occasion’s parliamentary board would take a closing name on the candidates, she added.
While holding talks with the Congress on seat-sharing in J-Ok, the NC had made it clear that they are going to be contesting the three valley seats as they’d gained these in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The NC left two seats in Jammu for the Congress as a part of the INDIA bloc’s seat-sharing settlement.
Mufti stated the necessity of the hour for the political events in Jammu and Kashmir was to stay united after the Centre revoked the erstwhile state’s particular standing in August 2019. “Youth are in jails, we cannot raise our voices, even the family members of employees cannot say anything. There is an atmosphere of oppression here. So, in such an atmosphere, it is imperative for us to stand united,” she stated.
The former J-Ok chief minister, nevertheless, stated the angle of the NC management was disappointing and hurtful. “When the INDI alliance’s meeting took place in Mumbai, I said there that since (NC president) Farooq Abdullah is our senior leader, he will take a decision (on seat-sharing) and will do justice. I had hoped he would keep the party interests aside,” she stated.
But the NC took the choice to contest all of the three seats in Kashmir unilaterally, she added. Mufti stated if the NC had approached her and consulted the PDP earlier than asserting the choice, her occasion might have determined not to area candidates in the bigger pursuits of Kashmir.
“But, the way Omar (Abdullah) announced the decision without taking us into confidence, and by saying that the PDP has no workers or support so they will not get a single seat, it hurt my workers and broke their hearts,” she added. She was referring to Omar Abdullah’s March 8 press convention in which he introduced that the NC would contest from all three seats in the valley and won’t go away any for its INDIA bloc accomplice the PDP.
Abdullah, on his half, stated he had not “made any remarks about her party and, therefore, I have nothing to say on this”. The PDP was going again on the understanding reached for the DDC polls the place the events having gained the seats would area their candidates, he stated. “What can I say about this? It is their own will. How can I stop them? We announced candidates for the three seats of Kashmir based on their own formula,” the previous chief minister of J-Ok stated.
When the DDC elections happened, the NC had requested the PDP that seat-sharing must be finished on the premise of the outcomes of the 2109 parliamentary elections however the latter didn’t settle for that, Omar Abdullah stated. “They told us that the candidates will be decided on the basis of the 2014 assembly polls. The decision was made that whoever had won the assembly seat will contest from that seat. So, in this parliamentary poll, the same formula was applied. Wherefrom we had won, we decided to field candidates,” he added.
Abdullah stated since there was no scope for seat sharing with the PDP in the parliamentary polls, “we would keep a scope for the assembly elections”. “But, now if Mehbooba Mufti has decided to contest on all seats, then perhaps she does not want an alliance for the assembly polls as well. In that case, I cannot say anything. We had kept the doors open, but if they are closing those doors, it is not our fault,” he added.
On DPAP founder Ghulam Nabi Azad getting into the fray for Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, Abdullah stated he was stunned. “I am quite surprised that Azad has chosen to fight from Anantnag-Rajouri-Poonch. I would have thought that if he is keen to enter Parliament, he should have fought from his bastion, his strength in Chenab valley. I would have thought he would have fought the Udhampur seat.
“The fact that he is not fighting from Udhampur and that he is fighting from Anantnag-Rajouri-Poonch, clearly there is (something) more than meets the eye,” he stated. Omar Abdullah stated he can not say something in regards to the motive and beneath what stress did Azad come to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag.
He stated the NC has fielded the most effective and strongest candidate in Mian Altaf Ahmad. “Whoever is contesting against him, we hope Altaf will win with a thumping majority,” he added.
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