brainstorming continues between congress and national conference regarding seat sharing jammu and kashmir

After a long time, all the parties are getting ready to try their luck with full force in the elections going to be held in Jammu and Kashmir. Regarding which, on one hand, the Bharatiya Janata Party has released the list of its 15 candidates. On the other hand, Congress and other political parties are still brainstorming about the seats. Congress and National Conference are going to have a meeting to solve the stuck issue of seat sharing. The last date for filing nominations for the first phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is 27 August. Let us tell you that National Conference and Congress have formed an alliance just a few days before the assembly elections.

Congress has sent KC Venugopal and senior leader Salman Khurshid to resolve the seat sharing issue for the assembly elections in the Union Territory. It is being told that both the leaders have left for Srinagar on Monday on the instructions of the party. According to information received from top Congress sources, the party is demanding to contest at least 8 seats out of the 24 seats in the first phase. If they are to be believed, the National Conference is offering 35 seats to the Congress as against the demand of 37 seats out of the total 90 seats. Deliberations are going on on this, the leaders of both the parties are in touch. It is believed that if the talks do not move forward, then the Congress is considering contesting the elections alone. According to sources, the picture of the alliance will be clear by August 26 afternoon.