KL Report
SRINAGAR
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that there are some reservations in his party (National Conference) about fighting elections together with the Congress.
Talking about the pre-poll alliance with Congress during a TV interview the Chief Minister said that it was under discussion. “There are reservations in my party about fighting elections together with the Congress and there are sections in the Congress that would rather go it alone, he said.
“Both Congress and National Conference have a presence in the 3 regions of the state. If we start giving seats to them we start to lose our identity in those seats, and what is the guarantee that votes will be transferred from Congress to the NC and vice versa,” Omar elaborated.
Stating that he will discuss the Pathribal case closure issue with Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh when he will be visiting Jammu early next month, Omar said “We are expecting the Prime Minister in Jammu & Kashmir early next month; it is an issue I will be discussing with him. The army has said they don’t have enough to proceed with a court martial my understanding is that the CBI has found enough. I am more likely to accept what they have to say that anybody else,” Omar said in an interview with a TV Channel.
Answering a question Omar said, “People might think you need to do an Arvind Kejriwal and sit on the street, but what happened, Arvind Kejriwal did a dharna for the Delhi Police what did he end up with, two policemen sent on paid leave. There are ways to take this argument forward we have done our best to convince government of India about the logic of our argument about AFSPA.”
Answering another question, Omar said that Chief Ministers are not put in office for dharna’s. “They are put in office to work with the government to try to resolve issues that is what he is going to have to do,” Omar said adding “can the Jammu and Kashmir CM hold a dharna outside the Ministry of Defence? Would the media cover that equally positively?”
