After Farooq Abdullah Indicated Another INDIA Setback, Son Omar Clarifies

Omar Abdullah said the NC will remain part of INDIA and is, in fact, in talks with the Congress for three of six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

The National Conference is part of the Congress-led INDIA bloc, ex-Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said this evening, hours after "categorical" assertions by Farooq Abdullah, his father and also a former Chief Minister, that the party "will contest elections on its own strength".

Omar Abdullah said the NC will remain part of INDIA and is, in fact, in talks with the Congress for three of six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

"We were part of INDIA and still are... things have been taken out of context. The main idea of the grouping is to defeat the BJP, for there is no point in sailing in two boats," he said.