Congress to finalise seat-sharing with Jammu-Kashmir INDIA bloc allies this week

Congress to finalise seat-sharing with Jammu-Kashmir INDIA bloc allies this week

The Congress on Thursday said it will finalise the seat-sharing agreement with the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir in the first week of March.

“INDIA bloc will fight the elections with its full might… In J-K, you will get good news in the coming few days that Congress, NC and PDP have done seat-sharing and we will fight the election jointly. We will fight with full might and achieve a clean sweep,” news agency PTI quoted Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani as saying.

Wani said final discussions are taking place on the alliances and an announcement would be made in the first week of March.

“Any party can say it wants to contest as many seats, but we only have six seats including Ladakh. So when an alliance takes place, final talks happen and seat-sharing is done. Wherever a particular party contests, the other two parties will give full support,” he said.

Wani also batted for assembly elections in the erstwhile state, saying they should be held along with Lok Sabha polls.

“We demand both elections be held together. If the situation is good for Parliamentary polls, why not for assembly elections?” said Wani

“The Supreme Court has already passed an order to hold assembly elections by September. If this (Lok Sabha) election is planned in the coming months, then only one or two months will remain till September, why then undertake double expenditure? Why does the government not go for simultaneous elections?” he added.