Admit we have pan J&K presence, Omar Abdullah asks BJP
Former chief minister Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference (NC) has won 25 of the 140 seats in the Jammu region of Jammu & Kashmir in the District Development Council (DDC) elections.
The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) swept the polls in the Kashmir Valley. The six-party grouping was led by the NC in the first major direct polling exercise in the region after the scrapping of its special status in August last year.
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of another former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, which is also a part of PAGD, could win only one seat in the Jammu region’s Nowshera.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the largest party in Jammu with 71 seats while the Congress won 17, Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party three, Panthers Party two seats, and Bahujan Samaj Party one.
Meanwhile former CM and vice president NC omar Abdullah on Wednesday asked BJP to admit that NC have J&K Presence
He said that if we are Kashmir based with 35 seats in Jammu then BJP Isn’t even jammu based.
I congratulate them (BJP) for their 3 seats (in Kashmir) but what about our 35 seats in Jammu. Admit that we’ve pan J&K presence. BJP keeps calling us Kashmir based party. If we are Kashmir based with 35 seats in Jammu, then they are not even fully Jammu based, he said. (
