National Conference leads in 3 Jammu and Kashmir seats, Congress in 2

April 9th, 2009 JAMMU - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Jammu and Kashmir early next week to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi is expected to address the party's two election meetings April 14, state Congress spokesperson Ravinder Sharma told reporters here Thursday.

April 8th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The stalemate between Jammu and Kashmir's ruling partners over the candidate for the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat has ended. The Congress will field its candidate with support from the National Conference in the cold desert region of the state.

April 1st, 2009 JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday urged people to vote for Congress candidates in the Jammu region in the elections, saying that the victory of the Congress would be a victory for the National Conference. 'It is the direction of National Conference president Farooq Abdullah that you all should vote for Congress candidates.

March 28th, 2009 JAMMU - National Conference president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah will campaign for the Congress in the state and outside, party sources said Saturday. Abdullah has been drafted as a star campaigner by the Congress during the Lok Sabha election for states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, party sources said.

March 28th, 2009 JAMMU - Union Water Resources Minister and senior Congress leader Saifuddin Soz Saturday expressed confidence that his party would return to power after the Lok Sabha elections. Soz, the state Congress chief, is spearheading the Congress campaign in Jammu and Kashmir, where the party has a seat-sharing arrangement with ruling partner National Conference.

March 14th, 2009 JAMMU - The National Conference (NC) and the Congress have reached an agreement to share seats for by-elections in Jammu and Kashmir, necessitated after two former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad vacated their assembly seats on being elected to the Rajya Sabha. The NC will contest two of the three assembly seats going to polls.

March 5th, 2009 JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir's ruling coalition partners National Conference (NC) and Congress are likely to share equally the six Lok Sabha seats in the state, party sources have indicated. Though seat sharing arrangements are still to be finalised, sources in both the parties said it would be 50-50.

February 2nd, 2009 JAMMU - Former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah (National Conference) and Ghulam Nabi Azad and union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz (both Congress) were among the five candidates who Tuesday filed their nominations for four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir. The others who filed nominations Tuesday - the last date for filing nominations - were Mohammad Shafi Uri of the National Conference (NC) and A.V.

January 3rd, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah, accompanied by his wife Payal, arrived here to a warm reception from his supporters Sunday, a day before the National Conference president is to be sworn in as the ninth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Hundreds of National Conference workers gathered at the Jammu airport to take the chief minister-designate to party headquarters Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here.

December 29th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The Congress and the National Conference, after joining hands to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir, may also consider an alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, with a Congress functionary not ruling out the possibility. 'We are not ruling out the possibility of a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha elections,' Congress general secretary Prithviraj Chavan told reporters here Tuesday.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The Jammu and Kashmir assembly election results reflect a 'paradigm shift' in political thinking of the people, the Congress said Monday. 'The paradigm shift has been from 'masla-e-Kashmir' to 'masaail-e-Kashmir' (the issue of Kashmir to issues in Kashmir),' Congress spokeman Manish Tiwari told reporters.

December 27th, 2008 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The National Conference Sunday emerged a clear winner in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, winning in 20 seats and leading in seven. Officials said the National Conference won 20 seats in the Kashmir valley, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) trailing behind.

December 27th, 2008 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir assembly was headed Sunday for another hung verdict with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference racing ahead of others. In just two hours after counting of votes began, officials said that the PDP and National Conference were leading in 13 and 12 seats, respectively, in the Kashmir region followed by 10 for BJP in the Jammu region.

December 27th, 2008 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The National Conference was ahead of other parties in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, leading in 24 seats, as counting for the polls was underway Sunday. It has bagged one seat so far.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Karan Singh Sunday said that an alliance between the Congress and the National Conference (NC) would be 'more compatible' as the results indicated a hung assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. 'Personally I feel that an NC-Congress alliance will be more compatible.