Analysis | National Conference possibly divided over electoral tie-up within Gupkar alliance
The Hindu
NC leaders have stepped up attacks on PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.
Senior National Conference (NC) leader Shameema Firdous on Tuesday targeted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and Gupkar alliance partner Mehbooba Mufti for the second time in 10 days, hinting at the party’s unwillingness to forge any electoral ties with the PDP and projecting Ms. Mufti as an ideological opponent.
Ms. Firdous, a top-ranking leader of the NC who is considered close to both Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, in her public speech in north Kashmir’s Handwara, was vitriolic against Ms. Mufti and her party, blaming them for the “current mess.”

When reporters brought to her notice the claim by villagers that the late maharaja of Mysore Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar had gifted the land to them, Pramoda Devi Wadiyar said she is not aware of the matter, but sought to assure people that no effort will be made to take back the land that had been gifted by the late maharaja.