Srinagar : In a main setback to the National Conference (NC), its complete device in Ladakh’s Kargil resigned en masse from the social gathering about its conclusion to aid the Congress candidate in the UT’s sole Lok Sabha seat.
In a letter dealt with to NC President, Dr Farooq Abdullah, NC’s Further Basic Secretary for the Ladakh UT, Qamar Ali Akhoon has conveyed the choice of the Kargil unit to stop in the higher curiosity of the Ladakh region.
The differences in between the NC substantial command and its Kargil unit stem from the disagreement of the Kargil NC leaders in excess of the party’s final decision to assistance Congress candidate, Tsering Namgayal for the Lok Sabha seat.
The regional NC unit has fielded Haji Hanifa Jan as an Unbiased candidate. Following the assistance of each potent community spiritual organisations, particularly the Imam Khomeini Memorial Have faith in and the Islamia Faculty to Haji Hanifa Jan, Sajjad Kargili, the NC applicant who concluded next in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in opposition to the BJP candidate and experienced entered the fray as an Independent candidate, withdrew in aid of Haji Hanifa Jan.
Haji Hanifa Jan has been element of the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), which with each other with the Ladakh Apex Entire body (LAB) has been part of the 4-12 months-lengthy agitation in Ladakh region for statehood, inclusion of Ladakh in the 6th Schedule of the Structure and creation of two Lok Sabha seats, a person for Leh district and the other for Kargil district.
The BJP has this time fielded Tashi Gyalson for the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat, dropping sitting MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.