Will try to fix cracks appearing in PAGD: CPM leader M Y Tarigami
CPM leader M Y Tarigami on Monday said he will try to mend the cracks that have emerged among PAGD constituents — the National Conference and the PDP — over seat sharing for the Lok Sabha polls in Kashmir. The PAGD — an amalgam of seven parties, including the NC and the PDP — was formed in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution by the Centre in August 2109.
«The emergence of PAGD was due to a crisis which still exists. There have been differences between the constituents recently which are out in public. I will still try to mend the gaps that have emerged,» Tarigami, who is the spokesperson of the PAGD, told reporters in Srinagar.
The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) had a seat-sharing arrangement for the District Development Council (DDC) polls held in 2020.
The National Conference has refused to give up any of the three Lok Sabha seats of Kashmir because it had won these in the 2019 general elections.
The PDP has taken offence over the NC taking a unilateral decision without consulting the PAGD on the matter.
Tarigami said the PAGD was not an electoral alliance but an amalgam formed for a bigger cause.
«It (PAGD) is being reduced into an electoral alliance. It is not. We did not have unanimity even in the DDC elections,» he added.
The leader said while he was not the one to fix responsibility for the instability of the PAGD, the issues for which the alliance was formed have not been addressed yet.
«I am not here to fix responsibility on who is wrong. In my view, it is
