{"id":91717,"date":"2025-10-22T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91717"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:00:05","slug":"ahead-of-assembly-session-rs-polls-nc-convenes-meeting-of-legislators-of-ruling-allies-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/ahead-of-assembly-session-rs-polls-nc-convenes-meeting-of-legislators-of-ruling-allies-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of assembly session &#038; RS polls, NC convenes meeting of legislators of ruling allies today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Will decide on participation in our legislature party meeting: Congress CLP GA Mir; PDP keeps RS strategy under wraps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Oct 22 (KNO): Ahead of the Assembly session and Rajya Sabha polls, the ruling National Conference has convened a meeting of its allies on Wednesday evening to discuss their strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the ruling party has also invited its ally, the Congress, to participate in the meeting, despite frosty relations between the two over the Rajya Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been invited to meeting,\u201d Congress Legislature Party leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Congress party is holding a meeting of its legislature party this evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will decide on participation in the joint meeting during our legislature party meeting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NC and Congress have been at odds after the former denied the latter a safe seat in the Rajya Sabha election. The National Conference offered a \u2018riskier\u2019 seat to its ally, which Congress refused to contest. The National Conference also offered the Nagrota Assembly seat to Congress, but it declined to contest that as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lone, CPI (M) MLA Muhammad Yosouf Tarigami and five independents supporting the government have also been invited to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is being held a day before the beginning of the autumn session of the Assembly and two days ahead of voting for the Rajya Sabha polls. In the Rajya Sabha polls, a close competition is expected for the fourth seat, with the BJP having the support of 28 MLAs and the coalition 24 MLAs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, which has three MLAs, has kept its cards close to its chest regarding Rajya Sabha polls and has not revealed its strategy\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will decide on participation in our legislature party meeting: Congress CLP GA Mir; PDP keeps RS strategy under wraps Srinagar, Oct 22 (KNO): Ahead of the Assembly session and Rajya Sabha polls, the ruling National Conference has convened a meeting of its allies on Wednesday evening to discuss their strategy. &nbsp; According to sources, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91718,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717\/revisions\/91718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}