Frictions are growing between the key constituents of the 49-month-old Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), after the NC’s proposal to the INDIA alliance that it will contest all three parliamentary seats from Kashmir in the upcoming 2024 general election. J&K has five seats, with three in Kashmir and two in Jammu.
Both the NC and the PDP are members of the Opposition’s Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). During the bloc’s meeting in New Delhi NC vice president Omar Abdullah proposed that the NC would field candidates from all the seats won by the party in the previous parliamentary polls, piquing the PDP.
This is despite the fact that PDP president Mehbooba Mufti had earlier told the INDIA alliance that NC president Farooq Abdullah, “being a senior leader from J&K, will take the final call” on seat sharing in the Union Territory (UT).
