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Tara Shankar Sahay in New Delhi
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said it would not have an alliance with the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir after the conclusion of the four-phased assembly election.
Party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "The question of an alliance does not arise because it [the NC] has treated our party shabbily, including in Ladakh."
BJP leader Chamanlal Gupta had also alleged that the NC treated his party 'shabbily'.
Naqvi, however, found no contradiction in being allied with the NC at the central level.
The leaders of the two parties have been spewing venom at each other in the run up to the assembly election.
The NC president, Omar Abdullah, is miffed at the BJP and its constituents for advocating a trifurcation of the state.
Abdullah told rediff.com that the BJP was 'virtually finished' in the state because of its demand to split the state.
"These people are playing with fire. They don't realise that their ridiculous and dangerous demand fuels the clamour of the separatist elements [for J&K's secession from India]. Nobody in his right mind can even think about it," Omar said.
He contended that the BJP's doublespeak on the issue was only sending wrong messages abroad.
Even though Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani ruled out trifurcation, the NC leadership believes that the issue is being deliberately kept alive by the BJP for electoral gains.
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