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PAGD reiterates commitment to contest Assembly elections together

The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) announced that they will contest together in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

Dr. Farooq Abdullah, President of the National Conference and the leader of the PAGD, announced today that they will run for office together. He said that one political party claimed to have broken out from the coalition. They never joined the alliance, in actuality. They came to destroy the alliance from the inside out, he alleged.

Mehbooba Mufti, the president of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), made a similar statement earlier in the day. She declared that they plan to run for elections jointly because the people want them to work toward regaining their lost dignity as a community. She claimed to stand united in opposition to all the hardships and challenges.

Dr. Abdullah responded to a query by saying that the government can hold elections anytime they see preferable. He questioned that when they had elections while there were floods then, why can’t there be elections right now?

Primarily led by NC and PDP, the PAGD is an alliance of various political parties that was created to fight for the restoration of J&K’s unique status.The coalition is expected to negatively affect the chances of minor parties like Altaf Bukhari’s Apni Party and Sajad Lone’s Peoples Conference if the alliance runs in the elections together.

The PAGD could potentially anticipate having an influence on the Chenab and Pir Panjal regions of the Jammu region, which are dominated by Muslims. Despite the significant Muslim population in the areas, Muslim votes are split between NC and PDP, thus letting BJP candidates get the highest number of votes.

While the senior Abdullah has confirmed allied candidates for the Assembly elections, the coalition partners will have problems executing it on the ground. Sajad Lone had accused the alliance partners of fielding proxy candidates and left the coalition, despite the fact that the group jointly contested the DDC polls in 2020 and won a majority.