CM downplays rift with Cong, says open to support ‘better candidate’ in Nagrota bypoll
JAMMU, Oct 16 (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday downplayed differences with the coalition partner Congress and said the National Conference is open to support the national party in the upcoming assembly bypoll to Nagrota if it has a “better candidate”.
J&K Congress has not fielded any candidate for the October 24 Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in the Union Territory after the National Conference refused it a “safe seat”.
According to J&K Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra, the party’s central leadership sought one of the two Rajya Sabha seats that are going to polls separately but the National Conference offered the party one of the two seats, which are going to polls under a common notification.
