The Kargil District Unit of Jammu-Kashmir National Conference has filed resignation on Monday (May 6) against the pressure of the party high command to support the Congress candidate from Ladakh Tsering Namgyal, announced the Additional Secretary, J&K National Conference, Kargil Qamar Ali Akhoon in a letter to President, J&K NC, Dr. Farooq Abdullah.
“In the interest of the Ladakh region as a whole and in order to secure the future of our region, the Ladakh Democratic Alliance has unitedly decided to project a Joint Candidate namely Mohammad Haneefa Jan as Independent Candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha Election from 1-Ladakh Parliamentary Constituency supported by all the Political and Religious Institutions unanimously coming across the party/religious affiliations, stated the letter”, a copy of which lies with Gulistan News Ladakh.
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However, “The party high command is pressurizing us (both telephonically as well on social media) to support the official candidate of INC from Ladakh which is unacceptable to us including J&K NC and INC Unit Kargil”.
In this connection, as the party insists us to act against interest of the people of Ladakh, so we are compelled to resign in masses from all party functionaries including the undersigned from the party post. This letter may be considered as mass resignation of all party functionaries from the primary membership of J&K National Conference, the letter stated.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) is a regional political party in Indian union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Founded as the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference by Sheikh Abdullah and Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas in 1932 in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, the organisation renamed itself to “National Conference” in 1939 in order to represent all the people of the state. It supported the accession of the princely state to India in 1947. Prior to that, in 1941, a group led by Ghulam Abbas broke off from the National Conference and revived the old Muslim Conference. The revived Muslim Conference supported the accession of the princely state to Pakistan and led the movement for Azad Kashmir.
