The Nationwide Convention Thursday elected Omar Abdullah because the chief of its legislative occasion, days after it secured 42 seats within the just lately concluded meeting polls.
After the occasion assembly, Omar mentioned that 4 impartial MLAs have additionally prolonged assist to the NC and with that, the NC’s energy within the 90-member Home goes as much as 46. NC’s ally Congress had received six seats within the elections.
The NC is awaiting a letter of assist from the Congress to stake declare to kind the subsequent authorities in Jammu & Kashmir.
“The legislative occasion met at the moment and I thank the legislators for reposing their religion in me. They’ve given me the possibility to go to Raj Bhawan and stake declare to kind the subsequent authorities,” Omar mentioned after the assembly.
The NC vice-president added that talks are on with the Congress to get their letter of assist: “We’ll go to the L-G as quickly as we’ve the letter from Congress.”
The 4 MLAs which have prolonged assist to the NC are Pyare Lal Sharma, elected from Inderwal; Satish Sharma from Chhamb; Chaudhary Mahammed Akram from Surankote; and Rameshwar Singh from Bani – all from the Jammu province.
For the NC, this addresses issues of illustration of Jammu of their authorities because the majority of seats in Jammu – 29 of 43 – voted for the BJP.
Pertinently, all 4 seats the place the independents secured victory was on the Congress’s expense.
Pyare Lal Sharma is an NC insurgent who contested as an impartial following the seat sharing settlement between NC and Congress. The Congress candidate from the seat, Mohammad Zafarullah, completed third within the constituency.
Chhamb MLA Satish Sharma is a Congress insurgent. He’s the son of Congress chief late Madan Lal Sharma, a two-time MP from Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency from 2004 to 2014, and likewise an elected MLA from Chhamb in addition to Akhnoor.
Chaudhary Akram is the son of one other veteran Congress chief who joined the NC simply earlier than the polls. However after the seat was allotted to the Congress within the alliance, Akram fought as an impartial and defeated the Congress candidate by over 8,000 votes.
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