Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP likely to contest Lok Sabha polls alone after Omar Abdullah’s snub

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In yet another blow to the I.N.D.I.A bloc’s unity, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has announced that her party will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls alone.

Speaking on recent developments with respect to opposition’s alliance, Mehbooba Mufti said, “As you all know the situation changed in J-K after August 5, 2019, and people are facing issues… we we decided to unite for people and as you remember I went to residences of many leaders and then we were kept under house arrest… Omar and Farooq Abdullah, we all came to a consensus that we will work unitedly.”

“We are still seeing people facing hardships even jailed youth aren’t getting legal help… same happened with our party and keeping all that in mind, we did many meetings to create a resistance in shape of PAGD… people started believing PAGD, even you are aware we were united…. and when DDC election happened, we fought collectively…,” she said.

“This is the reason when I.N.D.I.A bloc came and I adviced and suggested Farooq Abdullah to take the call… I am astonished that National Conference (NC) today said that PDP don’t exist anywhere… In PAGD, everything was getting debated…,” she added.

“To some extent, the National Conference’s decission have broken hopes of people… I am a fighter… and NC’s today’s statement have changed the goal posts and it’s now becoming NC v PDP despite then others Vs BJP, in the Lok Sabha elections,” Mehbooba Mufti said.

“Allaince isn’t big for me but unity is more valuable, if National Conference have clearly said that they will fight on all seats, then it wouldn’t be an issue to me… there are more big issues than seat-sharing in alliance,” she further said.

Mehbooba further added, “Omar Abdullah has cleared said in his statement that PDP isn’t in alliance, it simply means who dented PAGD, who broke it?”

“We have created a democratic allaince in shape of PAGD but it was hurt with the sword of words… didn’t expect this,” she added.

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