Key Points
Contrary to public perception, National Conference leaders, Farooq and Omar Abdullah, reportedly made persistent attempts to ally with the BJP..
Amid the recent statement by National Conference president Farooq Abdullah that his party could align with the BJP-led NDA, veteran leaders from Jammu and Kashmir have claimed that the Abdullahs had tried to ally with the BJP even after Article 370 was scrapped...
Rana also said that the National Conference's attempt to form an alliance with the BJP started after the 2014 Assembly polls and continued even after Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status, was abrogated...
"Farooq Abdullah and the National Conference leadership tried to form a government with the BJP in 2014 after the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections," Devender Singh Rana told India Today TV in an exclusive interview...
"Even after the scrapping of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the National Conference approached the BJP to form a coalition but the BJP's leadership rebuffed all the overtures of the NC leaders," said Rana in the interview with India Today TV...
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