By IANS,
New Delhi : The Congress and the National Conference, after
joining hands to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir, may also
consider an alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, with a Congress
functionary not ruling out the possibility.
“We are not ruling out the possibility of a pre-poll alliance for the Lok
Sabha elections,” Congress general secretary Prithviraj Chavan told
reporters here Tuesday.
The National Conference emerged the largest party in the Jammu and Kashmir
assembly with 28 seats after the election results declared Sunday, but
remained short of majority. The Congress, with 17 seats, has agreed to
support it in forming the state government. The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) secured 21 seats.
The Congress held a series of meetings and discussed Jammu and Kashmir
political equations.
Chavan said the party was not ruling out the possibility of rotating the
chief ministership between the two parties and of creating a post of a
deputy chief minister.
He said the Congress had received messages from the PDP for a possible
tie-up. “But we have spurned the offer, because the mandate is for the
National Conference,” he said.