"National Conference Will Win Next J&K Assembly Polls": Farooq Abdullah

Farooq Abdullah regretted National Conference's non-participation in the 2018 panchayat polls and the 2019 Block Development Council elections.

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah today asserted that his party will win the next assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, indicating for the first time since the revocation of the erstwhile state's special status that his party would participate in the polls. "We will win and I am telling you this with authority that if they conduct polls in a free and fair manner, then the National Conference will be the biggest party here," he told reporters on the sidelines of an event titled 'Parliamentary outreach programme for the empowerment Panchayati Raj institutions in Jammu and Kashmir'. The National Conference (NC) chief, who represents the Srinagar parliamentary constituency regretted his party's non-participation in the 2018 panchayat polls and the 2019 Block Development Council elections. "Our party did not contest the polls and I regret it. We should have (contested) and we will in the future God willing," the veteran politician said.