The INDIA bloc found itself in disarray in the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat on Friday. The Congress high command approved the name of Tsering Namgyal, a Buddhist from Leh, as the party candidate, but, on the other hand, the National Conference (NC) and the Congress units of Kargil supported Haji Hanifa Jan, a Shia Muslim, as an Independent candidate.
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The Congress and the NC, as a part of the pre-poll seat sharing agreement, had decided to field a candidate from the Congress party. However, senior Congress leader Haji Asgar Ali Karbalia, who was camping in Delhi this week, was demanding to field a candidate from Muslim-majority Kargil and not Buddhist-majority Leh.
