No differences with National Conference, says Congress leader

Senior J&K Congress leader and All India Congress Committee general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Tuesday denied any differences betwen his party and the ruling National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir.

His comments followed after the National Conference and Congress party appeared at odds over remarks made on Article 370.

Mir, who was talking to reporters in South Kashmir, however, dispelled reports of split in the alliance partners. “There is no such situation which is being suggested. World knows that the National Conference is a regional party and has a regional agenda as its top priority. Congress is a national party and things move according to national perspective. Neither, we will become NC, nor will they become Congress,” he said.

He said they have a mutual understanding on certain issues and there are ideological similarities between the two parties for the past several decades and both are even helping each other in the government as well.

“There might be difference of words in expressing our respective stands on issues but that does not mean that there are fissures between the alliance partners,” Mir said.

National Conference and its alliance partner Congress recently appeared in disaggrement over remarks made on Article 370. The two parties last week even faced severe criticism from Kashmir-based opposition parties over the issue.