Nationwide Convention to ship Farooq Abdullah to Rajya Sabha

SRINAGAR: With J&Okay set to get a brand new govt helmed by his son Omar Abdullah, NC chief Farooq Abdullah is making ready himself to symbolize the get together within the Rajya Sabha, extremely positioned sources stated.
A senior NC chief confirmed the get together, which bagged 42 meeting seats within the just lately held elections, would ship Farooq to the Higher Home. “He’s a guiding power for us… There’s a consensus inside the get together that Farooq sahab ought to go to RS to symbolize NC there and lift the problems of individuals of J&Okay.”
Sources in NC stated the newly elected legislators will elect 4 representatives to Rajya Sabha, as soon as a notification is issued by ECI.“At current, Ghulam Ali Khatana is the one Rajya Sabha member representing J&Okay. He’s a Gujjar face and was nominated by BJP with an purpose to win their votes within the meeting polls,” stated a supply.
Underneath the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, the J&Okay meeting can elect 5 Lok Sabha members and 4 Rajya Sabha members. The final Rajya Sabha elections in J&Okay had been held in 2015. The NC-Congress alliance had despatched then Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad to RS, who grew to become chief of opposition within the Home.