Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling National Conference has announced the party’s J&K spokesperson, Imran Nabi Dar, as the candidate for the fourth vacant Rajya Sabha seat after talks with the Congress failed to reach a breakthrough.

Last week, the NC had announced three candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls and said that discussions with the Congress were underway for the fourth. However, on Sunday evening, J&K Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra said the party had decided not to field a candidate for the seat since it was not one of the “safe seats” it had sought.

“The core committee met to evaluate our experience as part of the ruling alliance over the past year. We have unanimously decided not to field our candidate for seat number four, since the safe seats that we had sought, number 1 an

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