Srinagar: With six of its members elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the newly-formed Democratic People's Forum (DPF) of independents on October 11 said it would extend "issue-based" support to Congress-People's Democratic Party (PDP) alliance to help form a non-National Conference government in the state.

"We want a stable coalition. We will give issue-based support to the Congress-PDP coalition," DPF convenor Ghulam Moiuddin Sofi said.

The DPF was studying the formation of the coalition, Sofi said, as he categorically ruled out backing an NC government.

The leader of DPF, whose members contested the elections as independents, said his organisation had formed an alliance with Communist Party of India (CPM), which had two MLAs in the new Assembly.

The DPF was formed on October 7 to "prevent horse-trading" in the event of a hung Assembly.

Sofi, believed to be a proxy of Hurriyat Conference constituent People's Conference, was expelled from the conglomerate for contesting the polls. He was elected from Handwara constituency.

PTI