New Delhi:

The Congress is not going to be a part of the brand new Jammu and Kashmir authorities – regardless of having allied with Chief Minister-elect Omar Abdullah’s Nationwide Convention to win final month’s election – sources instructed NDTV Tuesday morning. The social gathering – which sources stated had declined the supply of 1 ministerial berth within the incoming authorities – will supply help from the skin as a substitute.

Nonetheless, two senior leaders – Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and the social gathering’s Basic Secretary, Priyanka Vadra Gandhi – will attend the swearing-in ceremony, which will even see eight ministers (the utmost allowed) take oath alongside Mr Abdullah.

Mr Abdullah will probably be sworn in as the brand new Chief Minister – J&Ok’s first elected head of state in a decade – this morning, after guiding the NC to victory within the September-October election.

The NC dominated the election, profitable 42 of the previous state’s 90 elected seats. The Congress – anticipated to do nicely – flopped, profitable solely six seats; it received 12 within the 2014 election.

This meant the Kashmiri social gathering claimed ‘massive brother’ standing within the alliance and will title the Chief Minister; NC patriarch Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah’s father, shortly named his son.

The NC’s hand was additional strengthened by 4 independents and the lone Aam Aadmi Occasion legislator additionally providing help – to the social gathering and never its alliance with the Congress.

These outcomes – coupled with defeat to the BJP in Haryana – cranked up the strain on the INDIA bloc head, with pleasant outfits like Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction, an ally in subsequent month’s Maharashtra election, criticising its lack of ability to play good with regional events.