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Amid BJP, Cong show of strength Azad, Bukhari, Sajjad remain ‘neutral’
7/18/2023 11:01:10 PM

Early Times Report

Jammu, July 18: While BJP and Congress are involved in a show of strength ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections, three local parties of Jammu and Kashmir preferred to remain neutral during the exercise.
Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) of Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party of Altaf Bukhari, and the People’s Conference of Sajjad Gani Lone have maintained a distance from the ongoing efforts of two national parties to lure more and more political parties in their respective group.
Two regional political parties of Jammu and Kashmir namely the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) are actively participating in the opposition’s unity efforts.
Although Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference was an alliance partner of the BJP during the PDP-BJP regime, the party leadership has decided not to become part of any amalgam at the national level.
As far as former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is concerned, he will not become part of any alliance in which Congress will be a party. It is believed that Azad will explore the possibility of forming non-BJP and non-Congress alliances at the national level with the help of some parties which are not part of both the alliance.
Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday made it clear that his party is not aligned with the BJP or opposition and stressed that its commitment is to New Delhi and the interest of Jammu and Kashmir.
Bukhari said, ”We have to stand with Delhi. That is in the national interest. That is in the interest of my people.” While two major parties of Jammu and Kashmir — the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) — have sided with the other opposition parties, Apni Party has identified itself as politically neutral.
”We are with New Delhi. We are neither with BJP nor with the opposition. We are neither with those parties who have gone to Bengaluru nor with the other (BJP-led NDA).
”As far as the Apni Party is concerned, we stand with Delhi. Tomorrow, you can also presume that we can be with the party that rules in Delhi. However, there is the least possibility of that party (Congress coming to power at the Centre),” Bukhari said in an interview with a news agency.
Asked about his party’s potential alliances, he reiterated that Apni Party will support whoever is in power at the Centre.
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