Srinagar: The Congress-National Conference alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is in troubled waters with the Congress preferring to fight solo in the forthcoming state elections. Battered in the last Lok Sabha polls, the Congress top leadership in the state has been holding crucial meetings with its senior functionaries, state ministers, legislators and state party cadre to decide on the question of its truck with coalition partner, the National Conference.
Congress leader Ambika Soni, Ghulam Nabi Azad and state president Saif-ud-din Soz held a series of meeting with party cadre to devise a strategy. They said they will convey the local leadership's demand to party president Sonia Gandhi.
Congress, which is in alliance with NC, is under pressure from its cadre to severe the pre-poll tie-up with the Omar Abdullah-led party and has indicated it will go alone in the forthcoming assembly elections. The break-up is inevitable given that both parties have accused each other for defeat in the Lok Sabha. The Congress-NC were routed and all the 6 seats it held were wrested by opposition BJP and People's Democratic Party.
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