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Will pollsters get it right this time in Kashmir?

Jammu/Srinagar: As Jammu and Kashmir's regional National Conference (NC) and the Congress gear up to fight their arch rivals, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), those trying to forecast the

India TV News Desk Updated on: March 22, 2014 15:09 IST
Kamal has been blaming not only the Congress for betraying his late father and NC founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, but often castigating the Congress for what he calls its anti-Kashmir policies.

Although the two Abdullahs have distanced themselves from Kamal's posturing, PDP leaders say the posturing is deliberate to garner voter support from anti-India camp for the NC.

All three arch rivals, the NC-Congress combine, the PDP and the BJP claim to have support bases in all the three regions in the state, but the fact remains that the PDP and the NC are essentially Valley-centric parties.

The BJP, all said and done, has little political existence in the Valley and the Congress cannot claim to have a commanding presence in the Valley either.

The BJP and the Congress, though, are well-entrenched in the Jammu region.

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