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Srinagar: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has landed in a difficult spot in Jammu and Kashmir after a Right to Information (RTI) plea disclosed that it didn’t appoint authorised agents in the recent Rajya Sabha election. The issue has triggered accusations from the ruling National Conference and some opposition parties that the PDP betrayed secular forces and enabled the election of J&K BJP chief Sat Sharma to the Upper House of the parliament.

NC supremo Farooq Abdullah, who had earlier thanked PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti for supporting his party’s candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls, withdrew his remarks, saying that he had no knowledge of whom the party’s three legislators voted for.

“They didn’t vote for us. Ask them who they voted for. Now it is clear,” he said.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah also alleged that the PDP helped the saffron party. “They won’t mend their ways. What we are suffering today is because they helped the BJP in settling here,” he said.

However, the PDP has rejected these allegations, arguing that the NC’s candidate and spokesperson, Imran Nabi Dar, lost by 14 votes to Sharma which made their three legislators inconsequential for the outcome of the election.

“After attending a meeting of the NC in which the........

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