Jammu and Kashmir Election:Congress Rushes 2 Leaders To J&Okay Amid Seat Dispute With Nationwide Convention

Srinagar:

With the clock ticking on finalising candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting election, Congress has rushed troubleshooters to Srinagar to clear the roadblocks in its seat-sharing talks with Nationwide Convention.

The final date for submitting nominations for first part of the polls is tomorrow. Senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Salman Khurshid will likely be assembly Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah and his son and occasion vice-president Omar Abdullah in the present day to iron out variations.

Earlier, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi met the Abdullahs and the 2 sides reached on settlement on contesting the elections collectively. However variations over seat-sharing emerged and the negotiations have hit a roadblock. The Congress has now rushed Mr Venugopal and Mr Khurshid to place an finish to the deadlock in order that the events can concentrate on prepping for the important thing election.

Ninety seats within the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting are voting in three phases, with polling due on September 18, September 25 and October 1. Counting of votes is on October 4.

Meeting polls in Jammu and Kashmir had been final held in 2014 after which the PDP tied up with the BJP to kind the federal government. In 2019, the Centre revoked the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories.

Omar Abdullah final week stated seat-sharing with the Congress has been finalised for many meeting seats and talks are on to achieve consensus over those remaining.

“Consensus has been reached to a big extent. I can inform you that we now have reached a consensus on the utmost seats out of the 90,” he instructed the media Friday.

“On few seats, we’re adamant and on some others, the native leaders of the Congress are adamant. There will likely be conferences in the present day as properly and we are going to attempt to kind out the remainder of the seats in order to announce our candidates,” he added.

In response to sources, Nationwide Convention has supplied 5 seats to Congress in Kashmir Valley and 28-30 within the Jammu area. The Congress is demanding extra, together with some conventional Nationwide Convention strongholds. The Nationwide Convention, sources stated, has supplied Congress the choice for pleasant contest on some seats claimed by each, however the native Congress leaders haven’t accepted this.

The BJP has hit out sharply on the Congress’s resolution to hitch fingers with Nationwide Convention for the important thing election. Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah has accused the Congress of risking the “nation’s unity and safety to satiate its greed for energy”. Mr Shah questioned if Congress and Rahul Gandhi help Nationwide Convention’s guarantees of “a separate flag for Jammu and Kashmir” and “restoration of Article 370 and 35A”. He additionally requested if the Congress helps promotion of “separatism once more by participating in dialogue with Pakistan as a substitute of Kashmir’s youth” and on the “Nationwide Convention’s resolution to begin ‘LoC Commerce’ with Pakistan”.

Responding to Mr Shah’s remarks, Omar Abdullah stated the Dwelling Minister has centered on solely “one paragraph of the manifesto”. “I thank the Union Dwelling Minister for mentioning our election manifesto. He has compelled everybody to learn it. The unhappy half is that he centered on just one paragraph,” he stated.