Amid the prevailing deadlock between the ruling National Conference and the Congress over the Rajya Sabha seat-sharing agreement, the Congress has convened a key meeting of its senior leaders and MLAs at the party headquarters on Sunday afternoon.
According to senior party leader and Bandipora MLA Nizamuddin Bhat, the meeting has been called to discuss the situation arising from alliance-related issues and to receive advice from the party high command. The meeting will be chaired by the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, Tariq Hamid Karra. While several members of the party are also attending the meeting.
According to inside sources, the Congress party is pushing for safer seats notified by the Election Commission of India through the first and second notifications.
However, the National Conference, according to sources, has offered Congress a seat notified under the third notification, for which the alliance faces a numerical disadvantage. For this highly pitched contest, the NC-Congress alliance only has 24 votes compared to the 28 votes of the BJP.
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The numbers are clearly not in favour of the alliance here, but a win is also not confirmed for the BJP either, as it lacks one crucial vote to secure the minimum 29 votes required to win the elections.
Yet, the advantage is with the BJP going into elections on this particular seat, where the party has fielded the state president, Sat Sharma.
In the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the ruling alliance has 53 members, while the BJP holds 28 members.
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