Congress, National Conference to fight J & K assembly polls separately
Srinagar: The inevitable has finally happened in Jammu and Kashmir. The Congress and the National Conference announced on Sunday that they have decided to part ways in the state and will go it alone in the Assembly elections due later this year, after being part of an alliance for almost six years.
However, their coalition government will continue till the state goes to the polls.
Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni and Saifuddin Soz said in Jammu on Sunday that the party will fight the coming state polls on its own and not enter into any pre-poll alliance.
Simultaneously, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, NC working president, announced on Twitter that he had informed Congress president Sonia Gandhi 10 days ago there will be no pre-poll alliance in the state.
I met the Mrs Gandhi 10 days ago & thanked her for all her support. I conveyed NC's decision to fight the elections alone 1/n
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) July 20, 2014
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 2/n
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) July 20, 2014
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 3/3
— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) July 20, 2014
He said it was a “complete distortion of facts” for the Congress to say it had taken the decision. “I met Mrs Gandhi 10 days ago and thanked her for all her support. I conveyed National Conference’s decision to fight the elections alone,” he wrote on Twitter.
