Srinagar, Aug 19: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Tariq Hameed Karra Monday said that the Congress party was open to forge alliance with like-minded people or parties and that the National Conference has approached the Congress Central leadership for a pre-poll alliance.
“As far as the alliance, we are open to like-minded people or the parties to forge an alliance with them,” Karra said addressing a gathering at PCC headquarters in Srinagar after his return from New Delhi, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He was recently appointed as the J&K PCC chief by the party high command in Delhi.
About NC, he revealed that the party leadership has approached central leadership in Delhi for a pre-poll alliance. “If parties are of the ideas that we have to defeat divisive forces and BJP, they will definitely ally with the Congress. And we will definitely succeed,” Karra said.