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Cong to seek NC help for Azad's re-election 1/21/2015 11:19:28 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 21: The Congress High Command intends to seek the help of National Conference for re-election of Ghulam Nabi as Rajya Sabha member. Since Congress has 12 seats in the Assembly it has no chance for winning even a single seat out of four for which the election was to be held shortly. Azad was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and at that stage also he had received support from the National Conference. At that time, the Congress and the National Conference had forged an alliance for sharing power in Jammu and Kashmir and as such the two had to cooperate in seeing Azad and Saif-ud-Din Soz get elected to the Rajya Sabha. Since the combined strength of the NC and the Congress in the Assembly was over 45 the alliance could ensure berth for the two NC candidates, Farooq Abdullah and Mohd. Shafi Uri, to the Rajya Sabha in 2009. This time there is no alliance between the NC and the Congress. However, the Congress leadership is trying to woo the NC leadership so that the two together could prevent the PDP and the BJP from winning all the four Rajya Sabha seats. Reports said that senior leaders in the Congress High Command plan to persuade Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is convalescing in London after the kidney transplant, to prevail upon his son, Omar Abdullah, to suggest to the party MLAs to vote in favour of Ghulam Nabi Azad. Since Azad had lost the Lok Sabha election which he had contested from Udhampur-Kathua constituency in May last, his political career may suffer a setback if he does not get re-elected to the Rajya Sabha.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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