J&K L-G approaches local leaders on COVID-19 containment, except PDP

National Conference (NC) president Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Congress' Ghulam Nabi Azad, G.A. Mir, Saidudin Soz and Ravinder Sharma were among the leaders consulted.

In a rare gesture, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday spoke to around a dozen local leaders of political parties and sought their cooperation and suggestions to combat the pandemic in the Union Territory (UT). However, no leader from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was contacted. A Raj Bhawan spokesman said the L-G held a telephonic conversation with the leaders, which included National Conference (NC) president and Member of Parliament Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Congress' Ghulam Nabi Azad, G.A. Mir, Saidudin Soz and Ravinder Sharma; BJP's Dr. Nirmal Singh and Ravinder Raina; J&K Apni Party's Altaf Bukhari and Peoples Conference's Sajad Lone and Muzaffar Baigh and National Panthers Party's Bhim Singh. The spokesman, however, conspicuously did not name any PDP leader.