SRINAGAR, Oct 4: The Nationwide Convention (NC) on Friday stated it was not in contact with any political get together apart from INDIA bloc constituents for presidency formation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The get together’s clarification got here amid hypothesis that it was engaged in backchannel deliberations with the BJP for presidency formation within the union territory.
“The JKNC categorically denies the unfounded rumours of again channel talks with any get together exterior the INDIA Bloc. These sensing their impending defeat have resorted to spreading such baseless accusations,” the NC stated in an announcement.
A publish on X by former Srinagar mayor Junaid Azim Mattu late on Thursday night time claiming that “NC-BJP negotiations have clearly commenced” fanned the hypothesis.
“NC management is now chatting with authorised representatives from the BJP and an unofficial mediator is “mediating”. Preliminary groundwork contains the creation of a “bigger curiosity” fig-leaf to justify the betrayal in Kashmir,” Mattu stated.
He claimed NC president Farooq Abdullah met a BJP consultant in Pahalgam.
“Which BJP consultant did Dr. Farooq Abdullah meet at Pahalgam not as soon as however twice? What negotiations are being held in Pahalgam? What occurred to all of the stentorian rhetoric of BJP being forbidden and prohibited? The extra that issues change, the extra they continue to be the identical,” he added.
The NC urged the general public “who’ve positioned their belief in us” to ignore these false claims and never be swayed by rumour-mongering.
NC sources stated Abdullah was in Pahalgam for a golf event.
The Jammu and Kashmir Meeting elections had been held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The counting of votes will happen on October 8. (Businesses)