Congress will enter alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, but not at cost of workers’ respect: Rahul Gandhi
The leader of Opposition, along with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, met with National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah in Srinagar on Thursday.
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The Congress will form an alliance for the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir “while maintaining the respect of the party workers”, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday.
Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will take place in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 4.
Congress workers in the Union territory have fought relentlessly for the party’s ideology, Gandhi said while addressing a workers’ meeting in Srinagar.
“I have told [Jammu and Kashmir party president] Tariq Hameed Karra that there will be an alliance but it will take place only if Congress workers’ are respected,” Gandhi said. “Our workers and leaders will have to be respected if an alliance has to be formed.”
He added that the Congress workers in Jammu and Kashmir have protected the party’s ideology and forwarded it in the region. “I am aware how much you have suffered in this process,” he said.
This came after Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge met with Jammu and Kashmir National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah and vice president Omar Abdullah in Srinagar.
The National Conference and the Congress had contested the Lok Sabha elections in a coalition as part of the INDIA bloc.
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