Srinagar: For the first time since the outbreak of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, separatist organisation Awami National Conference (ANC) has decided to take part in the election process.
Its president Muzaffar Ahmed Shah today announced that the party will be fielding candidates in all 87 seats in the assembly elections slated next year. Speaking to reporters after the party working committee meeting here, he said the ANC would go it alone and not have an alliance with any other party.
The breakaway faction of National Conference founded by G M Shah in 1984 has not participated in the assmebly polls since the eruption of militancy in the early 1990s. It ruled the state for 22 months between July 1984 to April 1986.
