SRINAGAR: The Congress National Alliance Committee is understood to have favoured an alliance with INDIA bloc partners in Jammu & Kashmir for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls, sources disclosed.
As per sources, the panel has pitched for a tie-up with INDIA bloc partners in J&K for the Lok Sabha polls, likely to be held in April-May this year.
The committee is set to submit its report to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 3, paving the way for seat-sharing talks with allies of the INDIA bloc.
Sources revealed that the Congress’s local unit in J&K aims to contest two Lok Sabha seats. They stated, “Leadership of J&K has told the party high command that it should stake claim on two seats, Jammu Lok Sabha seat and Anantnag-Rajouri or Srinagar segment.”
National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party are known allies of the INDIA bloc in J&K. The National Conference has made it clear that the seats won by the INDIA bloc shouldn’t come up for discussion, and only those seats held by BJP and non-INDIA alliance parties should be considered for seat-sharing.
In the last Lok Sabha polls, the National Conference had won all three seats in Kashmir, defeating the Peoples Conference in Baramulla, PDP in Srinagar, and Congress in Anantnag. (KNO)
