People's Conference chief Sajad Lone to contest Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla-Kupwara
Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference on Monday formally announced the candidature of party chief Sajad Lone for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Baramulla-Kupwara seat in northern Kashmir.
JKPC's general secretary Imran Ansari announced Lone's candidature asserting that the party aims «to defeat the common enemy of the people of J&K».
«We believe that the fiercest speeches on the floor of Parliament, advocating the just cause of our people will finally be delivered by Sajad Lone after a painful wait of seven decades,» said Ansari in his official statement.
JKPC said that its position about the other two seats in the Kashmir region will become clear within the next two weeks. «We will fight only where we believe we can win on our own and either seek support or give support respectively to any party best suited to defeat the biggest enemy of the people of J&K,» he said.
Last month, JKPC held a meeting with J&K Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari, presumably discussing the alliance for the Lok Sabha elections. Both the parties are not part of the Opposition INDIA bloc and have repeatedly targeted its members — National Conference and People's Democratic Party — J&K. On the other hand, both NC and PDP have labelled JKPC and Apni Party as «B teams» of BJP in J&K.
J&K has five Lok Sabha seats, with two in Jammu region that BJP won in 2019, and three in Kashmir Valley that NC won. The Ladakh region has one Lok Sabha seat, which was won by BJP.
As of now, the INDIA bloc has not announced any seat-sharing arrangement
