Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced support to National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir. The party said on Friday that a letter of support regarding this has been submitted to the Lieutenant Governor. It is known that one of your MLAs has won in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. In the recently concluded assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference won 42 seats. Also, alliance partner Congress has secured 6 seats. Bharatiya Janata Party won 29 seats, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won 3 seats and People’s Conference, Marxist Communist Party and Aam Aadmi Party won one seat each. Independent candidates won 7 seats.
The National Conference legislature party has elected its vice president Omar Abdullah as the leader of the NC legislature party in Srinagar. At the same time, the Congress Legislature Party will hold a meeting in Srinagar on Friday to elect its leader. Party spokesperson said, ‘Congress MLAs will hold a meeting under the chairmanship of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief Tariq Hameed Karra to elect the leader of the Congress Legislature Party.’ He said that the name of the leader selected in the meeting will be sent to the party high command for approval.
Waiting for Congress to hand over its support letter, said Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah said that 4 out of 7 independent MLAs have supported the party, due to which the party’s strength in the Assembly has increased to 46. Abdullah said, ‘Talks are being held with Congress. They have been given one day to decide. As soon as they give us the support letter. I will stake claim to form the government. Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections were held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The counting of votes took place on 8 October.
…If this had happened then BJP would have won: Omar Abdullah
Leader Omar Abdullah had said on Wednesday, ‘The results of the assembly elections prove that most of the people of Jammu and Kashmir are not in favor of the central government’s decision to abolish the special status of the erstwhile state. This mandate is clearly not in favor of that decision. If this had happened then BJP would have won. Most of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have not supported the move of August 5, 2019. This is a fact. We were not consulted and we were not part of that decision. But now we will move forward and see what we can do.
(with agency input)
