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NC-Congress alliance finalised in J&K; Farooq Abdullah to contest from Sringar

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New Delhi | The alliance between National Conference and Congress party has been finalised for the upcoming Lok Sabha in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress party will contest from Jammu and Udhampur while the National Conference will contest from Srinagar, the decision on Ladakh seat is yet to be finalised. Intrestingly both the parties will contest on the Anantnag and Baramulla seat.

Addressing a press conference on the alliance with the Congress party, National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah said,” Jammu and Udhampur will be contested by Congress, I will contest from Srinagar and there will be a friendly contest between NC and Congress in Anantnag and Baramulla. We are also discussing the Ladakh seat.”

The National Conference parliamentary board had on Monday had decided to field party president Farooq Abdullah from the Srinagar-Budgam constituency, former Jammu and Kashmir High Court judge Justice (retd) Hasnain Masoodi, known for his landmark judgement on Article 370, from the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency and senior leader and former Speaker of the state assembly Muhammad Akbar Lone from the Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha constituency.

Congress senior leader and former Jammu and Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad clarifying the term friendly contest on the Anantnag and Baramulla seat said,” Friendly contest means that there will be no cut-throat contest between us on these two seats (Anantnag and Baramulla). If either Congress or NC wins, it’s a win-win situation for both of us.”

Parliamentary elections on the 6 seats of Jammu and Kashmir will be held in 5 phases. In the 2014 election, both Congress and National Conference failed to win even a single seat. However, in the 2017 byelection on the Srinagar seat, Farooq Abdullah defeated PDP’s Nazir Ahmed Khan by more than 10,000 votes.

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New Delhi | The Income Tax department has attached assets worth Rs 225 crore of retired Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Net Ram and his associates as part of an alleged tax evasion probe against them, officials said on Wednesday.

They said a provisional order under section 132(9B) (power to attach) of the I-T Act has been issued and 20 immovable assets in Delhi, Mumbai, Noida and Kolkata have been attached and three luxury cars found at the residence of the officer in Lucknow have been impounded.

Cash worth over Rs 1.64 crore, Montblanc pens valued at Rs 50 lakh, four luxury SUVs and documents indicating ‘benami’ assets of Rs 300 crore were recovered during income tax raids on the premises linked to the retired IAS officer, who served in top positions during Mayawati‘s chief ministership, last week.

IT department officials had swooped down on a dozen premises linked to the 1979-batch Indian Administrative Service officer on March 12 after it obtained “credible inputs” that the former top bureaucrat and his associates have made “accommodation or bogus entries of about Rs 95 crore from Kolkata-based shell firms” in the past.

Net Ram was secretary to Mayawati when she was Uttar Pradesh chief minister during 2002-03, her third stint in power in the state.

The officer had served in various capacities in UP, including heading the excise, sugar industries and cane department, stamp and registration, food and civil supplies department.

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