SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee on Sunday said his party will not contest the October 24 Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in the Union territory in view of alliance partner National Conference refusing it a ‘safe seat’. Addressing mediapersons after a meeting of party leaders, it has been announced that the party leaders unanimously agreed that the Congress will not contest the Rajya Sabha polls. The Congress central leadership sought one of the two Rajya Sabha seats that are going to polls separately but National Conference offered the party one of the two seats, which are going to polls under a common notification. “Keeping this in mind, all the participants (at the meeting) were of the opinion that seat four is not safe like seat one or two. It was unanimously decided that we will not put up our candidate for seat number four. We will leave it to our alliance partners to see what they think about that,” Tariq Hamid Karra, President JKPCC said. “Since the safe seat was not offered to us, we don’t want to contest on seat four,” he added.
