{"id":1049,"date":"2025-10-11T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:00:26","slug":"safe-vs-risky-seat-sharing-standoff-continues-between-nc-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/safe-vs-risky-seat-sharing-standoff-continues-between-nc-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe vs risky: Seat-sharing standoff continues between NC &#038; Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No clarity yet on slots, talks underway: GA Mir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>KNO Special Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Oct 11: The \u2018standoff\u2019 within the ruling alliance continues over the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. While the National Conference is offering the \u2018risky\u2019 seat to the Congress, the latter is pushing for one of the \u2018safer\u2019 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO)-that during negotiations with the Congress high command, the National Conference offered the competitive seat to its alliance partner. However, the Congress is insisting on one of the three safer seats for its candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Sources further told KNO that the Congress may choose not to contest the \u2018risky\u2019 seat if NC remains adamant about its offer, given that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a clear advantage on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalks between the leadership of both parties are still underway. The Congress may opt to stay away from the contest if they don\u2019t concede a safer seat,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KNO, senior Congress leader GA Mir said there is no clarity yet on the slot on which the party will contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had requested that the Congress nominee file nomination papers against the first or second notification (safe seats), but there is no clarity yet on the issue,\u201d he said, adding that talks are underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are expecting that there will be clarity on the issue by tonight or by tomorrow afternoon,\u201d Mir added.<\/p>\n<p>The National Conference on Friday announced the candidature of Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Sajad Kichloo, and Shammi Oberoi.<\/p>\n<p>While the alliance is expected to comfortably win three seats, the BJP holds an advantageous position on the fourth. The alliance has 24 votes, whereas the BJP commands 28 votes. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No clarity yet on slots, talks underway: GA Mir KNO Special Correspondent Srinagar, Oct 11: The \u2018standoff\u2019 within the ruling alliance continues over the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. While the National Conference is offering the \u2018risky\u2019 seat to the Congress, the latter is pushing for one of the \u2018safer\u2019 seats. Sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}