A day after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah termed the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls a “true test” of who in J&K is with the BJP and who is against it, People’s Conference chief Sajad Lone said the CM should refrain from labelling anyone who does not vote for the National Conference’s candidates.

Omar, the vice president of the National Conference (NC), had said on Monday that his party would contest all four vacant Rajya Sabha seats from J&K, for which elections are to be held on October 24, after failing to reach a seat-sharing agreement with ally Congress. The Chief Minister also said the BJP would not be able to secure a single seat “without horse trading” since there are only 28 BJP MLAs in the 90-member house.

On Tuesday, Handwara MLA Lone announced that his party w

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