Omar Abdullah, vice president of the National Conference (NC), said on Saturday that it was “unfortunate” that his party was running against a buddy who had become “greedy” in order to win a Lok Sabha seat in the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency.
Abdullah was apparently referring to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti contesting the polls from the seat in south Kashmir. The NC has fielded its senior Gujjar leader Mian Altaf from the seat.
“The fight on the south Kashmir seat is not with the BJP. NC’s contest there is unfortunately with one of our friends who was with us till some days ago. Unfortunately, they left us for the greed of a seat. Our contest at least in south Kashmir is not with the BJP or its ‘B’ or ‘C’ teams,” Abdullah said here.
He was speaking to reporters after addressing an election meeting in support of the party candidate from Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi.
The NC and PDP, who are part of the opposition’s INDIA bloc, were also a part of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), which was formed after of the abrogation of Article 370.
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