In Kargil, BJP sharing power with ‘Gupkar gang’ member NC

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 19

The BJP has declared the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) “Gupkar gang”, which wants “foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir”, but in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil, the saffron party is sharing power with the National Conference (NC), a PAGD member.

However, dismissing it as a “local arrangement”, BJP leaders in Jammu say the saffron party and the NC had “contested the Kargil Hill Council election separately”. “It is a local arrangement and has nothing to do with the current situation. It is not as if the two parties have come together today. It was done to keep the Congress out. Besides, anything can happen in the current circumstances. By the next elections, the Kargil NC will also be part of the BJP,” they say.

The 2018 election to the Kargil Hill Council resulted in a hung verdict. Though the NC had an alliance with the Congress, it later entered into a coalition with two PDP councillors and four Independents. The PDP councillor joined the BJP, forming its alliance with the NC, say the leaders.

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