The Congress’s decision not to contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections and the Assembly bypolls in Jammu and Kashmir has marked its first such move in J&K’s electoral history since Independence.

While all four J&K seats in the Rajya Sabha are scheduled for polls on October 24, the by-elections to the Nagrota and Budgam Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory (UT) will be held on November 11.

The ruling National Conference (NC) has fielded its candidates for all four Rajya Sabha seats and the two Assembly seat bypolls after the party’s key INDIA bloc ally Congress turned down its offer to contest the fourth Rajya Sabha seat as well as the Nagrota constituency. The NC will be thus pitted against the principal Opposition BJP in all these polls.

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