Srinagar, Oct 23: Asserting that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) would use its votes in the Legislative Assembly to choose the Rajya Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir with an intention to “keep BJP away”, former chief minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said her party legislators would vote for the third National Conference ( NC) candidate Shammi Oberoi.

Addressing a news conference, Mehbooba specified that her party would desist from voting for the fourth “risky seat”.

She said that PDP wants to stay away from “being blamed” in case of NC losing the fourth seat.

“Let us be clear that we will vote for the third seat. NC can divert its votes for the fourth seat if it wishes to. We clearly don’t want the NC to pass the buck of their defeat on us,” the PDP presiden

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