{"id":310707,"date":"2019-03-20T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310707"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:13:01","slug":"congress-nc-form-pre-poll-alliance-in-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-nc-form-pre-poll-alliance-in-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress, NC form pre-poll alliance in J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310708 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/congress-NC-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/congress-NC-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/congress-NC.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress and the National Conference on Wednesday formed a pre-poll alliance in J&amp;K\u00a0 by entering into a seat-sharing pact.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement was made by the Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and the NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the pact, Congress will field candidates in two parliamentary seats of Jammu. Dr Farooq Abdullah will contest from Srinagar parliamentary seat in Kashmir Valley. Interestingly, the parties\u00a0 \u00a0will have \u201cfriendly fights\u201d in two places &#8212; Baramulla and Anantnag constituencies of Kashmir.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The discussions are still on for the\u00a0 Lok Sabha seat of Ladakh.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">J&amp;K has six Lok Sabha seats in total.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress and the National Conference on Wednesday formed a pre-poll alliance in J&amp;K\u00a0 by entering into a seat-sharing pact.\u00a0 The announcement was made by the Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and the NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah.\u00a0 According to the pact, Congress will field candidates in two parliamentary seats of Jammu. Dr Farooq Abdullah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,3352,1550,1141,2538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310709,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310707\/revisions\/310709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}